Dodo

It's Joe Connolly's first day at secondary school and everything is going wrong. How do you survive the worst first day ever without your best friend by your side?

When an adrenaline-fueled game of dares gets out of hand, Joe accidentally throws a ball at a teacher and now he's in big, big trouble.

It is Joe's 12th birthday and he can't wait for everyone at school to know, until he learns about the school tradition of birthday beats.

Everyone at O'Malley Secondary School seems to have found love apart from Joe. He decides today is the day he will get a girlfriend.

Joe knows he will be humiliated if he admits to being scared of Siobhan Murphy's terrifying Halloween story.

Joe Connolly is going to the dentist while everyone else at school is learning about their bits. How will he ever catch up?