Chameleon Dad - Paperback

by Debbie Thomas (Author)

A gripping summer adventure about found families, trust, and truth. And chameleons.

Children's Book Council: Spring 2024 Showcase: Reading List: Transformation

Connie will never forget the day her dad went to buy her a cup of hot chocolate at an airport café - and never came back. That was eight years ago.

Connie loves her foster-mum, Mags, but longs o find her dad again. When a mysterious letter appears, she vows to track him down with the help of her new friend, a fearless fossil-hunting boy called Thyo. Soon Connie is on a plane with her pet chameleon, Hue, on the most exciting, and scariest, journey of her life.

Author Biography

Debbie Thomas trained as a BBC radio journalist. She lived in Bangladesh and South Africa for ten years where she worked for aid agencies. She now lives in County Kildare with her husband and three daughters and has written five books for children: My Secret Dragon (Little Island, 2019), the Abbie Hartley trilogy (Mercier).

She has been the Writer in Residence at Crumlin Children's Hospital and is a board member of the Irish section of IBBY (the International Board on Books for Young People).