Danielle Rippengill

Children’s Senior Fiction Designer








Stealing Happy


Loan shark Chick Lennon is notorious around Sonny Gilmour's way, and not for anything good.

So when Sonny discovers his mum has borrowed money from Chick to pay the rent, he finds himself in need of the quickest of get-rich-quick schemes.

With the help of best mate Jonah and quiet genius Carolina Swift, he hatches a plot – to pay back what Mum owes using Chick's own ill-gotten gains. It's not a fool-proof plan, and it's not helped by Sonny's Tourette's making him blurt out 'ROB CHICK LENNON!' at the top of his lungs every time things get dicey.

But with his dad suffering from long Covid and his mum already struggling to cope, Sonny knows it's down to him to keep his family out of Chick's clutches ...


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Author
Brian Conaghan

Editors
Catherine Liney and Fliss Stevens

Illustrator
Ben Tallon

Designer
Danielle Rippengill

Age
Young Adult

Format
198mm x 129mm, 304pp; paperback

Publishers
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK, March 2025)










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