Twin and Supertwin

It's bonfire time and twins Ben and David, together with friend Mitch, are robbed of their enjoyment by a rival gang who've cornered all the combustible junk in the neighbourhood. By way of revenge, the trio put their rivals' bonny to the torch, and inadvertently ignore a hidden horde of fireworks. This catastrophe has a repulsively startling effect on David's forearm: it turns into a Roman candle, and then a string of putrifying sausages. When the twins learn to control these transformations, the real trouble begins. This is an intriguing story, whose surreal peculiarities are made all the more mesmerising by being set within a suburban juvenile gangster yarn. I should think most unqueasy juniors will love it, and the cliff-hanging chapter-ends make it a promising resource for reading aloud.