The hilarious new fantasy adventure from the author of Charlie Changes Into a Chicken. Alex is
a normal everyday kid living in a normal everyday city. Axel is a monster-slaying hero
living in a world of magic. Unfortunately when the two boys mysteriously swap places each of
them ends up being mistaken for the other. With zero experience of heroism Alex is thrust into
an epic quest to defeat the evil Felonius Gloam who has stolen the Book of Lifetales and is
using it to unravel the very fabric of the world of Aërth. Meanwhile Axel is faced with double
maths a gran who's six months behind on the rent and a crucial chess tournament he's got to
win - when he doesn't even know how to play. Can the two boys complete their Impossible Quests
and find a way back to their own lives or will they both discover they don't have a life to
come back to . . . ?