Boyce expresses how giving money accumulates to good deeds, which signify rungs on the ladder to heaven, just like the saints on their way to canonization. This is a noteworthy book with a truly deep and emotional side to it that perfectly combines fun, adventure, and humor into the sensitive issues.

Millions doesn't give me any types of feelings; it's more of a retelling of a story that happened with someone else- like the person telling the story can't show the emotions of the characters because s/he wasn't there and therefore didn't experience it. Damian is obsessed with saints and builds himself a little hermitage to live in down by the railroad tracks. It's a story about 2 brothers who are each dealing with the loss of their mother in different ways, and a father who reminds them to be excellent. I liked the ending because I thought it was very eye opening and that the theme was a very important lesson to learn. Millions focuses on what Damien and and his brother choose to do with a great deal of money that suddenly falls in their laps.Pan Macmillan) How would you feel if you were suddenly the holder of Millions of pounds that seem to have arrived at your feet by divine miracle? There were also many sad parts of the story including the boys’ dead mom, losing all their money and being robbed because all of those problems in the story were negative. Millions is about two young brothers who come across millions of pounds and their decisions on what they do with it. Furthermore, we are caught in a ‘should they/ shouldn’t they’ moral dilemma of whether Damian and Anthony should hand in the money.

Litfest strives to encourage the enjoyment of and participation in reading, writing, illustrating and the discussion of ideas by placing them at the heart of Lancashire’s culture. The book is about how money doesn’t measure happiness, wealth or a good life, wealth is measured by your relationships with friends and family and the bonds you make throughout life. At the end, Anthony says, “And so they failed to make proper use of their once in a life time investment opportunity and they all regretted it ever after. I don't read children's fiction very often, but this one was recommended to me so I thought I'd give it a whirl.

This book will find appeal and bring about discussion on many topics, particularly the correct way to deal with money. Another book which makes me wish goodreads allowed me to use 1/2 stars because this book is worthy of more than three but less than four. Conflicts arise throughout their family as the burden becomes to much to bear and secrets are becoming harder to keep.

Most of the novel was upbeat and cheerful because the boys were doing a lot of good deeds with all of their money and there weren’t that many major problems throughout the majority of the book. I probably wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone because I think that it’s just very boring and that there’s no real climax in the entire story. In addition to original scripts, Cottrell Boyce has also adapted novels for the screen and written children's fiction, winning the 2004 Carnegie Medal for his debut, Millions, based on his own screenplay for the film of the same name. The story started out very slow but after finding the money, the story became very fast and many events occurred over a short time which made it hard to pick up every little detail and most of the important aspects of the story were hinted at by those little details.

I would recommend this story to anyone above the age of ten, for there is some difficult language that would be hard for children to understand. There was just the right amount of choice to suit everyone without being overwhelming and I received comments from parents and staff about the quality of books offered compared to previous sales which have always been based around current crazes and well known celebrity authors. Damian and Anthony are well written characters, but I think the way they were written would have been more appropriate for boys older than them. Millions addressed some interesting topics, the main one being what would you really do with that much money? Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first.