How to be Prime Minister and Survive Grade Five

Imagine your dad gets the top job but isn’t exactly up to it. Then he sneaks off on holiday, leaving the country without a leader. What would you do?

When Harper’s dad becomes the prime minister he’s terrible at it. He was thrust into the top job after a heroic boogie-board rescue of two kids (and a labradoodle) from a shark attack, but surviving government is proving hard.

Their family is a laughing stock, and Dad disappears to a ‘conference’ – but he leaves his phone behind. With her little sister, Lottie, Harper must secretly take his place and decide on a new policy by the end of the week. She finds herself torn between ideas – should she ban plastic bottles? Or make weekends longer? Can she prove a kid can lead the country better than a grown-up?

About the author: 

Carla Fitzgerald is a writer, a recovered lawyer and mum of three from Sydney. She studied arts/law at university before working for a judge and at the Australian Human Rights Commission. Carla is a Books in Homes role model and a coach with the Harding Miller Education Foundation.

Product details:

Author: Carla Fitzgerald

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Dimensions: 128 x 20 x 196 mm

Pages: 266

Format: Paperback

Publication date: 2 August 2022

ISBN: 9780702265587