Get to know the Tribers
Welcome to the Tribers website, where you can discover more facts about the group of ordinary kids who aren’t leading ordinary lives, not now they’re Tribe.
They go to school, go home, have tea, watch telly, play stuff on the computer, ride bikes, just like everyone else does. But because they’re Tribe, they do a whole lot more.
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Tribe: Jonno Joins
~ Winner of the 2010 Hull Childrens Book award
In Jonno Joins, the five friends form Tribe (that makes them the Tribers) and agree the rules. There are weekly meetings (Keener makes the lists of things to discuss), special handshakes, fact sheets, Tribe subs (for chocolate), a manifesto (ask Bee, no one else knows what it is), but most importantly they have to be Tribish, and that means fair, and kind to the planet, and loyal.
The Tribers get Copper Pie out of a heap of trouble when his catapult catapults something it shouldn’t. They sort out some bother in the alley and they save a defenceless creature. They have a lot of fun, a few hairy moments, some disagreements and a run in with the Head. It’s all part of the life of your average Triber.
Tribe: Goodbye Copper Pie
No one can join and noone can leave, that's what they agreed. So when Copper Pie disappears the enemy, Tribe itself is threatened, and when someone else wants to join that's another problem, athief in school adds to the trouble. But Tribe can work it out, they have to.
Available October 2010:
Tribe: Keener Bunks Off
Nothing could make Kueener bunk off school, so why is he slipping out of the school gates at lunch? Nothing will get Fifty in the river at camp so why is he standing on the river bank ready for action? Nothing will convince Bee that going to an all girls' school is a good idea, so why is her mum set on sending her there.
Get to know what the Tribers like and what they don’t, what secrets they’d like to keep, what they eat and what games they play. When you feel you know the Tribers why don't you try out the quiz to test your knowledge.
The Tribers
Bee: I’m bossy.
Someone needs to be.
Copper Pie: I’m the muscle.
Mess with my mates, and you’ve got me to deal with.
Keener: I try and keep Copper Pie out
of trouble. It’s a full-time job.
Fifty: I may be short but I can talk
my way out of anything.
Jonno: I’m a Triber, that’s all you need
to know.
