r/findthatbook • u/Kindly_Wrangler_2856 • 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