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Max Counts to a Million: A funny, heart-warming story about one boy’s experience of Covid lockdown
Max Counts to a Million: A funny, heart-warming story about one boy’s experience of Covid lockdown: A funny, heart-warming story about one boy’s experience of Covid lockdown | Jeremy Williams
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Do you like epic quests of amazing counting? Do you dislike global pandemics, being stuck at home, and the number 7? Then I have a story for you. It's about how I counted to a million during lockdown - with help from Mum and Dad, friends and neighbours, and Grandad. And some birds. And a bucket of marbles. And an awesome TV reporter. Sometimes, just keeping on going makes you a hero. Eight-year-old Max is counting to a million. Normally, school or having anything interesting to do would get in the way, but school is shut and everyone has to stay home because the UK is in its first lockdown. Max's dad works at the hospital and counting helps Max with missing him, but as the pandemic progresses and Max's grandad journeys through his own battle with the virus, what starts as a distraction turns into record-breaking effort that brings Max's community together. Suitable for readers aged 7 up, this poignant, uplifting story reflects the experiences shared by so many during the Covid pandemic and celebrates how ordinary people accomplish epic things.
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Lizzie69
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Max is like millions of other children, his normal world has changed and his new way of life is home schooling and staying at home with his mother while his father is a front line worker.
After a ticking off from his mam he is told to count to a hundred.
But Max is taking it further, he is trying to count to a million.
He started doing the extra counting as a personal challenge but somehow its gone beyond that and is a community event.

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Jarethkoncsol06
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This book set at the start of the first lockdown of the Covid pandemic.
Its a scary time and with his father a key worker and staying at home with mam, isolated from his friends, school and normal life in general Max is struggling.
To take his mind off things he starts to count, originally told to count to a hundred by his mother Max extends this to a million.
The news spreads and it quickly gains momentum to a whole community, charity project.

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peta86
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The world is in lockdown during the first wave of the pandemic.
Max and his family are struggling cope just like everyone else, with his father as a key worker tensions can also run high.
After a disagreement with his mam as a way of escaping the isolation he feels he starts to count, the counting goes on until he decides he will only stop when he hits a million.
But what was originally a silly counting game has turned into a local frenzy.

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lazydaizee

An interesting story of how lockdown affected one little boy.
https://ladydazy.tumblr.com/max

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#childhood
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