High-spirited Keith Shipley tries to cheer up his gloomy parents, nicknamed the “”misery guts,”” using such ploys as painting their favorite restaurant a Tropical Mango Hi-Gloss color.

• ISBN: 9780152547684
• Author: Gleitzman, Morris
• Published: 1993, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Themes: Parent and child, restaurant
• Descriptors: England (UK), Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction
• No. of pages: 122