The Other Facts of Life by Morris Gleitzman

I chose this book mostly because i enjoyed the previous books I have read from Morris Gleitzman, the cover and title grabbed my attention and i only had 3 minutes to choose a book, i wanted to read another book but I'm happy that i did choose this book.
The story was set in a rich suburb in Australia around 2000's.The beginning of the book grabbed my attention as there was a hilarious misunderstanding between a curious 12 year old boy named Ben and his parents. Bens parents Ron and Di thought it was Ben was at the age that he needed to know about the 'flowers and the bees' but Ben was interested in a whole different matter. They were a wealthy family who had the 'easy' life but Ben was puzzled on how they could be so rich while other people around the world are starving and malnourished. Desperate to get his parents attention to help, Ben tries various ways to get his parents attention to help people from the third world country. His stunts though get him and his parents in a lot of trouble. His tricks took up most of the body of the book which was quite repetitive but was interesting enough to keep me entertained. The ending turned out with Ben caring less about the worlds problems and more about his family after he gave his father a heart attack. I think that the ending could have gotten much better and creative though.
I recommend this book for teens who is looking for a laugh and a crazy main character. The characters were likable and it was easy to see through both Ben's and the parents point of view. In my opinion i would give this book a 7/10 it was easy to get the plot and i enjoy reading books that had a bit of humour in it but i think that there could have been a better ending and the story was quite predictable.