Gary Sleep spends his time drinking, smoking a bong and not caring about anything, especially school. His life changes for the better when he leaves school and becomes a plumber’s assistant.
- mates
- drugs
- families
- death

Year 9+ boys would especially like this book. They would enjoy the ‘boy humour’. ( )

The Legend of Kevin the Plumber is another fantastic Aussie tragicomedy by the author of Burning Eddy. This story takes place in Mullet Head where Gary Sleep has just left school and got himself a job, everyone is relieved, finally the trouble maker can get out of everyone's hair and settle down. The only person who isn't happy is Gary; he wants to be a famous movie stunt man just like his father "Mad Max" and being Kevin Daly's plumber assistant is a way off and Kevin Daly is a way off being a movie star too. In fact he looked like the last thing you see before you die in a pub brawl; massive and grumpy.

Together he and Gary get up to all sorts of trouble. But keeping his job sometimes can be the last thing on Gary's mind not with all the strife he gets into in Mullet Head with Pip and the gang, then there is of course the mysterious Ash and Vanessa who is Kevin's daughter. ( )