The 13-Story Treehouse (The Treehouse #1)

by Andy Griffiths

Other authorsTerry Denton (Illustrator)
Paperback, 2015

Status

Available

Call number

FIC Griffiths

Description

Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-story treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making beds, vines you can swing on, a vegetable vaporiser and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots your favourite flavoured marshmallows into your mouth whenever it discerns you're hungry. Life would be perfect for Andy and Terry if it wasn't for the fact that they have to write their next book, which is almost impossible because there are just so many distractions, including thirteen flying cats, giant bananas, mermaids, a sea monsters pretending to be mermaids, enormous gorillas, and dangerous burp gas-bubblegum bubbles!… (more)

Publication

Square Fish (2015), Edition: Reprint, 272 pages

Awards

Bluestem Award (Nominee — 2016)
Independent Booksellers' Book Prize (Shortlist — Children's — 2015)
Golden Archer Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2018)
WAYRBA: Western Australia Young Readers Book Award (Winner — Younger Readers — 2012)
The Indie Book Award (Longlist — 2012)
COOL: Canberra’s Own Outstanding List (Fiction for Older Readers — 2012)

Language

Original publication date

2011

Physical description

272 p.; 5.46 inches

ISBN

1250070651 / 9781250070654
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