‘Hunger brings loneliness and shame. I want to banish those feelings for good’
The first rule of Breakfast Club is you don’t talk about Breakfast Club.
Helson, like millions of kids in this country, belongs to a family that sometimes doesn’t have enough to eat and depends on being fed at school and on parcels from a local foodbank.
He is the hero of The Great (Food) Bank Heist, a book aimed at younger readers about a family that can’t afford to feed itself.
We are with Helson as he struggles on an empty stomach at school, feel the shame of hiding the hunger from friends. But it’s not a worthy sermon on the evils of poverty in the UK, it’s an adventure story. When food starts going missing from the foodbank his family relies on, Helson investigates.
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