Misery Guts

Keith Shipley lives in England. It’s wet and dreary, and his parents are a couple of misery guts. They need cheering up, and Keith sets out to do just that. Then he realizes the only thing that will really make them happy is to move halfway around the world to Paradise. Trouble is, it takes a disaster to get them there. A disaster that could turn even the once cheerful Keith into a misery guts.

The adventures of twelve-year-old Keith as he tries to cheer up his parents in such ways as painting their shop in bright colors and convincing them to move from gloomy England to a place called Paradise.