Advice from a 12-Year-Old Nobody — Helen Rutter

Vinny needs support from his agony-aunt mum, but she's too busy helping other people to notice in this empathetic tale about family and mental health by bestseller Helen Rutter.

Vinny's got problems â€" lots of them. His family seems to be falling apart and his best mates have dumped him. He should be able to turn to his mum for helpâ€" as an online agony aunt, she answers other people's problems for a living. But she's too busy to see that Vinny is really struggling.

Unable to solve his own issues, Vinny starts replying to unanswered posts on an old blog of his mum's. At first the solutions seem easy but what will happen when the problems get more serious and Vinny realises he's out of his depth?

Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.