Henry Hoey Hobson

Twelve-year-old Henry Hoey Hobson is drowning in the dangerous waters of Year Seven.

When he arrives at his sixth school, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Henry discovers he is the only boy in his class. Friendless, fatherless, and non-Catholic, Henry is not only a Perpetual Sucker, but a bloodsucker, according to his classmates. When he's caught moving a coffin into the creepy house next door, it drives a stake through the heart of his hopes of fitting in. His only chance to fight back is the school swimming carnival - sink-or-swim time in the treacherous waters of Year Seven.