Max and the Millions

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Despite this, I enjoyed how Max's hearing aids were an important part of the story and the focus on him making friends and developing confidence in himself and his ability to communicate. Alongside the adventure, and with a light hand, Montgomery successfully touches on challenges such as coping with buzzing hearing aids, lazy assumptions about deafness, and people’s inept attempts to communicate better by shouting. From Costa-shortlisted superstar, a highly anticipated standalone adventure about what happens when you find a tiny, living, breathing civilization on the floor of your school dorm room. As much of the story is about the tiny people and their inability to get along- with multiple threats of violence. Along with his new friend Sasha, Max figures out how to communicate with Luke and save the various kingdoms from each other as well as from the evil headmaster who is trying to get rid of everything associated with Mr.

Max is used to spending time alone – it’s difficult to make friends in a big, chaotic school when you’re deaf. There is also the developing friendship between Max and Sasha, as well as Max's attempts to get him to understand the difficulties he has communicating with others.The day before summer vacation, Max's closest friend at boarding school disappears, leaving behind his amazing model collection and a handful of sand on his bedroom floor. Then Max makes a miraculous discovery – a tiny civilisation in the pile of sand on the caretaker’s floor.

This book shifts between many perspectives; from Max, to Max’s new friend Sasha, to Sasha’s sister, to Ben the King of the Blues. But the miniature world is on the brink of war and Max must team up with his roommate Sasha and tiny King Luke to save the miniature world from the school's horrible headmaster. He lives in London with his girlfriend, a cat named Fun Bobby, and a cactus on every available surface.On the floor he finds a pile of sand – and in the sand is Mr Darrow’s latest creation – a tiny boy, no bigger than a raisin, Luke, Prince of the Blues. His eyes had been scanning the front row to measure the effect of his dramatic sigh, but now they stopped on a single chair. This was a breezy book with heroes to root for, but an extreme lack of development when it mattered most.