Advice from a 12-Year-Old Nobody

De: Helen Rutter, Julia Christians

Vinny needs support from his agony-aunt mum, but she’s too busy helping other people to notice in this empathetic tale about family and mental health by bestseller Helen Rutter.

Vinny’s got problems – lots of them. His family's falling apart, and his best mates have dumped him for some really annoying girls.

He should be able to turn to his mum for help – she’s an online life coach who answers other people’s problems for a living. But she’s too busy to see that Vinny is really struggling.

Unable to solve his own issues, Vinny starts replying to unanswered posts on an old blog of his mum’s. At first the solutions seem easy, and he can be as hilariously honest as any 12-year-old boy would be, but what will happen when Vinny realises he’s out of his depth?

Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.

©2026 Helen Rutter (P)2026 HarperCollins

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A moving, wise, and beautifully observed novel. This book captures the quiet ache of feeling alone and turns it into something hopeful and human. By answering the questions in his mum’s agony-aunt column, Vinny discovers what we all learn eventually: everyone carries troubles, and sharing them – solved or not – makes them lighter." — Jenny Pearson

"Helen Rutter really knows how to tap into the mind and dilemmas of the 10-13 year old age group … Advice from a 12- Year- Old Nobody is another brilliant Barrington Stoke pitch-perfect book for reluctant readers from 10 upwards who sometimes find reading a challenge but don’t want stories for younger children." – NetGalley review