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Most people call me The Jackdaw. If they don t, I tell them they probably should.

Meet fifteen-year-old Jack Jackdaw Dawson, a young man with a serious plan. Daydreaming in class one day, Jack is hit over the head with an idea so blinding, so extraordinarily visionary and so downright fantastic he knows it can t fail. It s his ticket out of school – an app that will stop you from getting into trouble for daydreaming in class (ahem…) Fame, glory and tons of money seem just around the corner – but then Jack runs into a few problems.

First of all, his warring parents are determined to push him into a career of their choosing (mum says office, dad says factory) without much thought as to what Jack might actually want. Secondly (and quite importantly) Jack doesn t know the first thing about making apps, and the only person who does wants nothing at all to do with Jack.

That is, unless he does her a favour… which leads to someone else needing another favour, then another and another – until Jack finds himself sat upon a very precarious pile of promises to a whole bunch of random people. Can the Jackdaw complete his scheme, or is this too much for even his superior brain to cope with?