Dodo

It's Joe Connolly's first day at secondary school and everything is going wrong. How do you survive the worst first day ever without your best friend by your side?

When an adrenaline-fueled game of dares gets out of hand, Joe accidentally throws a ball at a teacher and now he's in big, big trouble.

It is Joe's 12th birthday and he can't wait for everyone at school to know, until he learns about the school tradition of birthday beats.

Everyone at O'Malley Secondary School seems to have found love apart from Joe. He decides today is the day he will get a girlfriend.

Joe knows he will be humiliated if he admits to being scared of Siobhan Murphy's terrifying Halloween story.

Joe Connolly is going to the dentist while everyone else at school is learning about their bits. How will he ever catch up?

Joe has the best friends in the world but when he doesn't go ice skating with them, he fears he is being left out.

Joe accidentally steps in dog poo and has to get rid of the smell before anyone realises it's coming from his shoe.

Joe brings home a dog from the park and wants to keep it, until he realizes it might belong to someone else.

Joe goes to extreme lengths to get a nickname and ends up with one he doesn't really want.

Joe loves fireworks night and he has dreams of sharing it with Lily, except something's wrong and she won't tell him what.

Joe is keen to make friends with the new girl on a school trip but Joe's Dad and his embarrassing singing threaten to spoil everything.