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Tin Grin - Scholastic
LTD, 2007 (2001) Getting a step-dad is bad enough, but my new "brother" Rupert, a metal-mouthed muppet, is even worse. The little creep's determined to ruin my reputation, split up my family and wreck my only chance of romance! |
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Fat Chance - Scholastic
LTD, 2007 There are crushes and there are obsessions... |
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Soul Sisters - Point (Scholastic
LTD), 2005 Kitty and Bella were best friends- practically sisters, they were so close. But then Bella moved away and Kitty doesn't really know why they didn't stay in touch, Now Bella's back, and Kitty can't wait for them to be mates again - it'll be like old times... But Bella isn't quite how Kitty remembers her. First she catches her out with a load of lies, and then it seems like Bella's coming onto every guy they know. As Kitty unearths some long-lost memories of their childhood friendship she begins to realize that maybe Bella's been hiding something all along... |
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Mr Perfect - Point
(Scholastic LTD), 2003 ISBN: 0-439-98296-0 Flora's been practically molested, unceremoniously dumped and now totally humiliated by the most good-looking but also, she's now realised, the most obnoxious guy at school. She's had it with immature boys. So when she runs into Max (literally), it somehow seems fated. But surely a sophisticated, Armani-wearing sex-god such as Max couldn't ever be interested in her? But max is interested. And he's everything a girl could want in a man- gorgeous-looking, great clothes, glamorous job, rich... Oh, and older. Problem is, just how much older? And what are Flora's parents going to say...? |
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Celia - Point (Scholastic LTD),
2002 ISBN: 0-439-963001 Celia’s just walked out of her history GCSE. Right in the middle of it. Everyone will think she’s totally lost it, but so what? Some things are more important than exams. Like getting away from her so-called ‘parents’. Celia’s sick to death of them: her father’s constantly on her case, and her mother just gets on her nerves. And it’s not even as if they’re a proper family. Trouble is, she’ll be leaving her boyfriend Josh too, but lately even he doesn’t seem to understand how she feels. |
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Seven Weeks Last Summer - Bodley
Head, 1992 ISBN: 0-370-31734-3 Red Fox edition (pbk) 1993 ISBN: 0-09-998600-0 Everything had seemed so simple at the start of the summer- long, lazy days in the garden and a bit of gentle revision for the exams. But Abby had no idea of the shattering events that were in store for her... Seven Weeks Last Summer charts Abby's progress through a period of cruel change and harsh realisation. This is a perceptively written and compelling coming-of-age novel, as Abby is forced to come to terms with herself and the wider world. |
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Lizzie Oliver -
Macdonald, 1987 "Looking back, that day was the last of the happy times," thought Lizzie. Her father's remarriage, and their move from Cornwall to London, makes Lizzie's first teenage year a lonely and difficult one- but her own account of her life and times is intimate, often hilarious and highly realistic. |
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Lizzie's Luck - Macdonald, 1989 In this absorbing and often hilarious sequel to Lizzie Oliver, Lizzie continues her own story with characteristic wit and honesty. |
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Alphabet Cousins - Bodley Head,
1991 ISBN: 0-370-31541-3 Red Fox edition (pbk) 1992 ISBN: 0-09-985400-7 Recently orphaned, Kate, an only child, goes to live with her uncle and aunt and their five children. Although Kate's new found family try to make her feel at home, she seems unable to settle into her new life; she begins to lie, cheat and fantasize, which causes misery at home and friction at school. It's not until Kate discovers an unexpected talent that she begins to feel she belongs and can truly become an Alphabet Cousin. |
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Missy - Bodley Head, 1993 ISBN:
0-370-31797-1 Red Fox edition (pbk) 1994 ISBN: 0-09-919331-0 "...That's how it started, the summer of broken friendships and broken promises, broken hearts too. Although really, you'd have to go back a lot further to find the true beginnings. You'd have to go back a good few years, to when the Gang was first formed, and heaven knows when that was..." For Mel growing up in a small town in Cornwall, being in the Gang means something. That is until Missy comes along. Missy is confident and sophisticated and she seems to bring a fresh excitement to old pastimes. But something about her just doesn't ring true and it takes a near disaster to make Mel realise that appearances can be more than a little deceptive. |
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Mog and Bumble - Simon & Schuster, 1991 ISBN: 0-7500-0579-3 / 0-7500-0580-7 (pbk) Mog was Sarah's cat. He was just an ordinary tabby, but to Sarah he was beautiful. When Bumble arrived - a soft-looking puppy with one floppy ear - Mog was furious. He fluffed up his fur and hissed fiercely every time he saw Bumble. Then Mog disappeared... |
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Hullaballoony - Macdonald Young
Books 1999 ISBN: 0-7500-2660-X / 0-7500-2661-8 (pbk) Joe doesn't like having a new baby brother. You can't play with a baby and no one seems to have much time for him any more. This is when Joe discovers a new friend whom only he knows is there - Hullaballoony. Hullaballoony knows how to get attention - by being naughty, very naughty! But nobody seems to like Joe's new friends, and Joe isn't sure if he likes Hullaballoony any more either... |
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Leaving Mrs Ellis - Bodley Head,
1994 ISBN: 0-370-31856-0 "Leo," said Mum, "what's the matter? Won't you tell
me?" Leo turned back again and looked at her. "It's Mrs
Ellis," he said at last. "I shan't be in her class any
more. Next year, somebody else will be my teacher..." |
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Pigface - Corgi (Transworld/Random House), 2002 Pigface has never been anything other than Pigface. It was simply the perfect name for him. Noah and his friends have always called the quiet, podgy boy in their class 'Pigface'. He is round and pink, and he lives on a pig farm, so he must know it's a joke, mustn't he? At any rate, Noah is sure he's never heard Pigface complain. Then a new boy joins the class and Noah begins to wonder if nicknames are quite so funny after all. |