Two weeks with the Queen

Colin's brother Luke has terminal cancer and Colin is being shipped off to England to stay with distant relatives during Luke's final days. This gives Colin an opportunity to speak to the Queen of England so she will send her best cancer doctor to Australia to help Luke recover.

You can't help but fall in love with Colin and his wild optimism and his enthusiastic can-do spirit as he searches England for something, someone to cure his sick brother.

There's a reason why books are on the 1001 Children's Books list are on the list; these are all very good stories, and this one is a crazy mix of humor and pathos.