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It's Joe Connolly's first day at secondary school and everything is going wrong. How do you survive the worst first day ever without your best friend by your side?

When an adrenaline-fueled game of dares gets out of hand, Joe accidentally throws a ball at a teacher and now he's in big, big trouble.

It is Joe's 12th birthday and he can't wait for everyone at school to know, until he learns about the school tradition of birthday beats.

Everyone at O'Malley Secondary School seems to have found love apart from Joe. He decides today is the day he will get a girlfriend.

Joe knows he will be humiliated if he admits to being scared of Siobhan Murphy's terrifying Halloween story.

Joe Connolly is going to the dentist while everyone else at school is learning about their bits. How will he ever catch up?

Joe arrives at the disco with high hopes of a slow dance with Daisy Adeyemi. The only thing standing in his way is his best friend, Frisbo, who has his own high hopes of knee sliding. And girls don't like knee slides.

It's Christmas, and Joe is having to stay in his brother Jamie's room. Joe now must endure a night of Jamie's cruelty and figure out what to do when a girl texts you.

After forgetting his permission slip for the school trip, Joe faces a day in school without friends. But luckily Lily Scott will also be in school. Finally, Joe can have a conversation with her.

Joe Connolly has never done a poo at school before but that will all change today.

Joe's shoe begins to squeak, and it's funny - at first. But after several lessons of his friends laughing at him, Joe gets back at Frisbo and the two fall out.

It is Valentine's Day and Joe Connolly has a plan to send Lily Scott a Valentine's card.

Joe Connolly has never been in a fight, but that doesn't stop him from getting the reputation as the toughest kid in year 7.

Joe Connolly has made a decision - he is going to ask Lily Scott to be his girlfriend.

Joe Connolly is Lily Scott's boyfriend and everything is great. But Joe soon realizes he cannot just be a boyfriend, he must be a good boyfriend.

It's parents evening and Joe's parents can't wait to meet his girlfriend, Lily. Joe cannot let this happen.

It's the Year 7 talent show, and Frisbo will perform his greatest ever magic trick with Joe as his stooge. But Joe has bigger problems with which to deal.

When Steve Malek steals back Joe's Mickey Page football card from Frisbo, Joe decides Steve will be his new best friend.

Joe Connolly is on a losing streak. With Sports Day fast approaching, he needs to avoid losing again at all costs.

Joe learns that Frisbo fancies Kayla Madani. Joe wants to help his best friend, but there is a problem. Kayla is Lily Scott's best friend.

Joe has the best friends in the world but when he doesn't go ice skating with them, he fears he is being left out.

Joe accidentally steps in dog poo and has to get rid of the smell before anyone realises it's coming from his shoe.

Joe brings home a dog from the park and wants to keep it, until he realizes it might belong to someone else.

Joe goes to extreme lengths to get a nickname and ends up with one he doesn't really want.

Joe loves fireworks night and he has dreams of sharing it with Lily, except something's wrong and she won't tell him what.

Joe is keen to make friends with the new girl on a school trip but Joe's Dad and his embarrassing singing threaten to spoil everything.

When Joe is invited to a proper party, he worries that Frisbo will embarrass him with his childish Slugs of War sleeping bag game.

Joe is convinced that the poetry competition's mystery prize is a games console and he is determined to win, even if that means ruining his friendship with Pete.

Lily Scott wants to play up front in the football team. She also wants to dump Joe Connolly, but is she too nice to do either?

It's Christmas and Joe accidentally breaks Gran's dolls house. When Jamie gets the blame, Joe thinks it's a Christmas miracle until he learns the whole thing was filmed.

After his split with Lily, Joe doesn't want things to be awkward with his friendship group, but everything he does makes things worse.

Joe wants to impress Fran with his prank but forgets that the rules say she will have to prank him back. Now he's on high alert for the rest of the day!

When Joe loses his best friend Frisbo to the popular kids from school, laser tag is the only way to get him back.

It's careers day at school and Joe wants to be an astronaut but when a test tells him he's going to have a boring job instead, he imagines his future life.

When Joe and his mortal enemy, Hitesh, get stuck on hole seven at mini golf, they find they have more in common than they thought.

Joe agrees to perform with Fran in her drama showcase but doesn't realize it involves singing.

Joe wants to prove to his family that he can be trusted so he volunteers to go to the supermarket to buy an onion, but things don't go smoothly.

Joe's imagination spirals when he hears a rumour just before his history exam.

On a school charity walk, Joe and his friends take a shortcut and get lost. But Fran has bigger things to worry about.

It's Fran's last day at school and Joe doesn't want to say goodbye. To distract himself, he focuses on getting rid of his spot instead.