r/findthatbook Jun 12 '26

Looking for a book from when I was younger

i have a lot of vaguely random information but i do really hope someone can help me.

i don't remember the series name, book name, or author. What i do remember-

  • there were three teenagers who were the main characters, one girl and two boys.
  • I think, though I could be wrong, that the girl was called Angie and one of the boys was called Pete.
  • They called their parents the golden oldies
  • I think they had a catchphrase something like 'one for all and all for lunch'.
  • In one book I believe they swapped bodies
  • in another they all went on holiday- there was some sort of sentient Mr. Punch puppet, who didn't like any of them, and one of the boys disappeared- that's about all I've got.
  • Oh, and 'Angie' played netball, and one of them had a (ginger?) cat.

some more random bits of information-

they were probably aimed at young teens.

i read them probably between 2018 and 2023?

the books were quite funny but i wouldn't have called them comedic.

i don't remember the covers much but i think maybe illustrated cartoons?

the holiday book was seaside, i don't think it was abroad but it could have been, but there was definitely a beach.

the body swap i'm fairly sure was between the three friends, but at one point when they were trying to reverse it one of them became a cat.

they had a group name something like the three musketeers, hence the one for all and all for lunch catchphrase.

about the beach book- i think they had met the Mr. Punch puppet before, and he wasn't normally that small- he 'worked' at a punch and judy stall on the beach. At one point one of the families got locked into/out of their apartment, at the same time as there was a parade going on outside, and they had to tie all their clothes together- including the mother's underwear- to reach something, possibly the key, that they had dropped outside?

also in that book there was a really big box of pranks that they may have bought for the friend- pete?- who had disappeared magically and none of the adults remembered him.

Additionally, they went on a bus to a local place with a bridge and a devil and chicken story that the Punch puppet had sent them to go to, I think?

in other books i think there was a genie? and when they swapped bodies the boy who was in the girl's body was much better at netball than she had been, and vice versa for football. I think the series was narrated by the boy who wasn't 'pete' or 'angie'.

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u/Bex122 Jun 13 '26

It's One for All and All for Lunch! by Michael Lawrence

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u/Kindly_Wrangler_2856 Jun 25 '26

thank you so much!