Y4: Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet

by Zanib Mian

Omar has just moved into a new house with his family: sticky-fingered little brother Esa, snooty older sister Maryam and his scientist parents.

Going to a new school turns out to be okay, apart from the fact that class bully Daniel tells Omar that because he's a Muslim, he's going to be kicked out of the country and will have to go and live in Pakistan. Understandably worried, Omar asks his cousin if that's true, and both hope it isn't, because there's a distinct lack of good pizza there. Plus, there's mean Mrs Rogers next door who complains loudly about Omar's mum frying onions.

Yet when mean Mrs Rogers has an accident, Omar's family is there to help. And when Omar and bully Daniel get stranded on a school trip in London, Omar realises that Danny isn't so tough after all...

“We didn’t want to stop reading this book! We couldn’t want to find out what Omar got up to. It is so funny and we really want to read the next book in the series! – Lucyiah

“I really enjoyed this book. The characters are really funny and we liked how Omar was similar to lots of children in our school- moving schools can be really scary but it was good to see this in a book too!” – Benjamin