The Boy In The Bubble is a children's novel written by Ian Strachan and published in 1993.[1] The novel is about the story of Adam (a child born with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), and lived his life in an oxygen tent to prevent him from falling ill), and a schoolgirl named Anne, who chooses to base her school project on Adam. The novel won the Red House Children's Book Award, and was the 1994 Lancashire Book of the Year.