- Comedy
- Worst Week Ever! collection
- Ages 8–11
Worst Week Ever!
Part of the collectionWorst Week Ever!→Seven days, seven disasters - a fast, daft photo-and-cartoon comedy built to hook reluctant readers, following Justin Chase through the worst week of his life.
- Books7 / 7
- Arcs1
- Span2023–2025
- StatusComplete
The series
At a glance.
Eva Amores and Matt Cosgrove's seven-book comedy runs across a single, escalating week - one book for each day from Monday to Sunday. Justin Chase is convinced he is having the worst week ever, and the series keeps proving him right: a disastrous first day at a new school, a viral poolside humiliation, a shipwreck with his arch-enemy, a mistaken-identity kidnapping, a fall down a giant hole, a zombie apocalypse and, at last, a planet-saving alien invasion that ties off the running gag about his abducted cat. Told in a blitz of text, cartoons and photographs, it is fast, gross and relentlessly funny, engineered from the ground up to convert reluctant readers into page-turners. The stakes stay comic throughout, with resilience and unlikely teamwork carrying Justin from one catastrophe to the next.
Seven days, seven disasters - a fast, daft photo-and-cartoon comedy built to hook reluctant readers, following Justin Chase through the worst week of his life.
Read in day order, Monday to Sunday (books 1-7) - the week is a single continuous run, with running jokes and the alien-abducted-cat gag paying off in the Sunday finale.
One arc
The shape of the series.
- INarrative arcBooks 1–7 · 2023–2025Low sensitivity
The worst week, day by day
One catastrophic week, Monday to Sunday, as Justin Chase lurches from disaster to disaster.
The whole series is a single seven-day arc: each book is one day of Justin Chase's disastrous week, read in order from Monday to Sunday. The catastrophes escalate from an ordinary-nightmare first day at a new school into full-blown genre parody - a desert-island shipwreck, an underground survival ordeal, a zombie Saturday and a planet-saving alien Sunday - while running gags (the vampire stepdad, the alien-abducted cat) build to a big, silly payoff. The mode is manic photo-and-cartoon comedy, low in real sensitivity but with some spooky, scary imagery in the zombie instalment. Fast, gross and relentlessly funny, it is engineered to keep reluctant readers turning pages all the way to the finale.
Book 1Worst Week Ever! MondaySimon & Schuster Children's UK · MMXXIIIWorst Week Ever! MondayBook 2Worst Week Ever! TuesdaySimon & Schuster Children's UK · MMXXIIIWorst Week Ever! TuesdayBook 3Worst Week Ever! WednesdaySimon & Schuster Children's UK · MMXXIIIWorst Week Ever! WednesdayBook 4Worst Week Ever! ThursdaySimon & Schuster Children's UK · MMXXIVWorst Week Ever! ThursdayBook 5Worst Week Ever! FridaySimon & Schuster Children's UK · MMXXIVWorst Week Ever! FridayBook 6Worst Week Ever! SaturdaySimon & Schuster Children's UK · MMXXVWorst Week Ever! SaturdayBook 7Worst Week Ever! SundaySimon & Schuster Children's UK · MMXXVWorst Week Ever! Sunday
Fit check
Right for your reader?
Where the series lands by age
- 1
- 3
- 5
- 7
- 9
- 11
- 13
- 15
- 17
- 19
- Best fit · 8–11
- Read aloud · 7–10
- Independent · 8–11
Reluctant-reader friendliness
Very high
Read-aloud quality
Workable
Adult crossover
Low
Grows with the reader
Not especially
Sensitivity envelope
Low overall, and consistent.
Content notes
- Scary imagery
Where it sits
In conversation with other series.
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