STUFF HAPPENS: FADI

Stuff happens sometimes. Everyday stuff. At school, at home, with sport, with mates. For Fadi it happened when he got in trouble for tackling Jack at lunchtime.

Spinning out of Jack by Tony Wilson, Fadi gets his own story. Fadi is big and strong and hasn't quite grown into his body. He's a gun on the rugby field where his strength and size is an advantage, and at home with his Islander family his size fits, but off the field and out of home he sometimes breaks things (people's science projects, Jack's arm - but that was an accident!). With the help of his uncle and cousins, Fadi learns to put some grace to his movement - and develop some seriously cool dance moves.

Scot Gardner likes long walks on the beach and romantic dinners. He's also qualified to handle venomous snakes and explosives. He once blew up a snake during a romantic dinner on the beach. It was an inflatable snake. It kept the seagulls away. Romantic, huh? He occasionally writes books, mostly for children and teenagers.