Future Friend — David Baddiel

From million-copy bestselling author David Baddiel comes a laugh-out-loud and inspiring new adventure for all readers of 8 and up that is ahead of its time - 1,001 years ahead, to be precise.The year is 3020.Pip@256X#YY.3_7 is lonely and bored: she goes to virtual school on her G-Glasses, she only has a talking cat and parrot to hang out with, and she can''t even leave her LivingSpace due to the extreme heat and floods outside.Until the day that Pip explores a glowing ring in a lab and finds herself in a warehouse, in 2019.Where she meets boy-inventor Rahul - who is also lonely and bored.Together, Rahul and Pip are no longer lonely. But they have a whole load of new problems, including hiding talking animals from Rahul''s parents, and finding a way back to the future.Plus - just maybe - saving the world.Future Friend is a terrifically entertaining time-slip adventure that combines action, laugh-out-loud humour and the importance of friendship, in a story that asks the question - what would happen if your best friend came from the future?