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The Boy with 12

Fingers

Miller Caldwell

KEY SELLING POINTS
Heart-warming story about a young boy with a disability and a big dream.
The story encourages children to celebrate their differences and inspires children to discover the music
within themselves.
Story is set in Scotland where the author is from.

Billy Hansen was born with Polydactyly. He has extra fingers, twelve fingers instead of ten.

His parents aren’t wealthy, and they can’t afford the expensive surgery to fix his hands, but they do love him and
try their best to make him forget about his disability. But when he ties his shoelaces or holds his fork, those
extra fingers always get in the way, making it difficult to forget.

When Billy starts school, the other children make fun of him and call him names, which makes him feel sad
and alone. But when Billy finds a piano in his classroom, he realises that he can use his extra fingers to his
advantage.

Can Billy defy the odds and become the piano player he dreams to be?

Miller Caldwell has led a full life where it seems one event has led to another. He confronted Usama bin
Laden in Pakistan and brought an African dictator to his knees in tears in Ghana. Miller served the Society of
Authors on their committee and was their events manager. He has previously published, amongst others, The
Trials of Sally Dunning (Matador), and Penned Poetry for Parkinson's Research (City Stone Publishers), which
he was diagnosed with in 2021. Two books, A Lingering Crime and Caught in a Cold War Trap both have Los
Angeles Film Scripts. Miller lives in Dumfries in southwest Scotland.

Publication Date: 24th April 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781805143680
Thema subject category: YFB – Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
paperback 234 x 156 mm 48 pp Portrait Author location: Dumfries

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