Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer

Kofi had an idea... one big lightning bolt of an idea that hit him like electricity. And all it needed was Kelvin's incredible memory for words.

Kofi is used to stuff going wrong, he's usually in detention or about to be. But when he finds out his best friend Kelvin has a photographic memory, he comes up with a genius money-making scheme. The whole school is obsessed with music, no one can ever make out the words, so the boys hit the jackpot selling a new fanzine full of song lyrics: PAPER JAM. It's not long before one of the teacher's tells Kofi: 'You could be a real leader at this school, you know that?' and . . . suddenly it's turning out to be the best summer ever!

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Accolades

WINNER Quiz Writers’ Choice Awards for Best Primary Fiction 2025

Highly Commended in the The Week Junior Book Awards 2024, Children's Book of the Year: Older Fiction

Shortlisted for the Laugh out Loud Book Awards 2025: Ages 9-12 Fiction. Cast your vote for Kofi via the link.

Shortlisted for the Warwickshire Schools Library Service Secondary Book Award 2025

Nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024

Selected for Empathy Lab's Read for Empathy collection 2024

Shortlisted for Chapter Chasers 2024

Longlisted for the James Reckitt Hull Children’s Book Award 2024

Shortlisted for the Dudley Children’s Book Awards 2023

Shortlisted for Reading Rampage, 2022-23

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