Books with author Philip Begho

Aunty Felicia is as tricky as she is devilish, and no one knows this better than Junior. So when she sends a note to school suggesting a soccer match, Junior doesn’t fall for her tricks. But the other kids think it’s a super idea – and the girls are sure they would trounce the boys’ team. “It’s a trick! It’s a trick!” cries Junior. But no one listens. They think he’s just being a spoilsport. But is he? Doesn’t Aunty Felicia strike? Doesn’t bedlam run loose on the playing fields of Festac Foundation School? Doesn’t disaster run riot?

Aunty Felicia always knows what the kids are doing at school. Junior is sure that the reason she knows is because someone is feeding her information. Can this person be a classmate? It’s unthinkable – but can there be a traitor among Junior’s trusted buddies? Junior decides to set a trap for the traitor – but shivering shark-teeth shiver! What unexpected results greet his action! What numbing surprises!

John Bull Sobo, Junior’s schoolmate, is so short – he’s a runt. And runts aren’t dangerous, are they? Well, John Bull Sobo is! Armed forever with rubber bands and paper pellets, he can scare the living daylights out of an arena of pit bulls! But is that all that makes John Bull So-Short so dangerous? No! Junior catches him one day with Aunty Felicia! He’s Aunty Felicia’s crony! Or isn’t he? Junior tries to find out – and what happens? Sparks and scraggy stars, that’s what! And a double dose of Aunty Felicia fireworks!

Is there anyone more slippery than Aunty Felicia? She is caught again and again. And again and again she escapes. Everyone is frustrated, and tongues begin to mutter. Ill-words are spoken. Princess, Junior’s stroppy classmate erupts in anger and utters her heart’s desire – that Aunty Felicia should have an accident. Words have power, don’t they? Will Aunty Felicia have an accident? If she, does what will happen? What?

Toju and Tosan, two seven-year-old friends, are able to travel to Bible times, using the time caps Toju’s scientist father invented. In this adventure, they question the influence women have over men and decide to visit the once-influential Jezebel. Jezebel is happy to see them, for she is mistaken about who they are. But she fails woefully to influence them as she influenced her husband King Ahab – and she is in dreadful trouble!

Bully Boy is a horrible bully whose huge size makes his bullying more terrifying. He meets Junior in a children’s center in Yola and wants to use him for punching practice. Junior is no coward, but what chances can such a small boy have against this beast of a bully? What is more, the dreaded Aunty Felicia wants to share in the fun. Ah, now we have a truly gazumping dose of trouble!

Junior and his classmates are excited over “Angel of Light” – a play showing that evil people may sometimes disguise as good people in order to harm the unwary. Is this what the dreaded Aunty Felicia is doing when Junior finds her in church? Or is she truly repentant? But there are other surprises in store for Junior apart from Aunty Felicia’s strange conduct – and what happens? Junior gets the shock of his life from a most unexpected source!

The police in Yola are hot on Aunty Felicia’s trail, and it’s with great relief that Junior and his parents leave all the trouble and head back for Lagos. But has trouble finished with them? Who do they find in the plane? Aunty Felicia! All might be fine still, if Aunty Felicia will remain quietly seated and let the plane land. But she is Aunty Felicia – and hijacking a plane sounds like fun to her. Ah, Aunty Felicia!

Yola was meant to be a nice holiday for Junior, but a nightmare began when the evil Aunty Felicia showed up. Junior is forced to keep to the safety of his hotel – and the safe company of Aunt Daisy. But Aunt Daisy bears a striking resemblance to Aunty Felicia, and when two guests appear at the hotel for dinner, is there confusion or what? One of them is surely Aunty Felicia, but which one? Ah, trouble, trouble, trouble!