2 Weeks with the Queen

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Two Weeks With The Queen (ISBN 0-399-22249-9) is a 1990 novel by an Australian author, Morris Gleitzman, about a 12-year-old Australian boy, Colin Mudford.

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Colin Mudford is sick of being put behind his little brother Luke. For Christmas, Luke got a toy plane with the exact number and exact colour of the pilot's helmet he wanted! While Colin wanted a a microscope and he got plain leather school shoes. But when the doctors diagnose Luke as having terminal cancer, Colin refuses to believe them and stop them letting his brother die. So when Colin goes to England, because his parents think it's best, he decides to talk to the queen to get the best doctor in the world to save his brother. With hilarious results!