Clean Break
Em adores her funny, glamorous dad - who cares if he's not her real father? He's wonderful to her, and to her little brother Maxie and sister Vita. True to form at Christmas, Dad gives them fantastic presents, includi…
Cookie
Beauty Cookson is no beauty. She's a plain, timid girl who constantly feels inferior to the super-confident, snooty girls at school. Worse than the teasing in the playground, though, is the unpredictable, hurtful crit…
The Bed and Breakfast Star
Meet Elsa - The Bed and Breakfast star! 'Hey, when is a door not a door? When it's ajar!' Elsa loves to tell jokes. She KNOWS she's going to be a big star one day - doing what she does best, making people laugh.…
Secrets
"Then she grinned. I grinned. It was just as if we knew each other." India lives in a HUGE house, but hardly gets any attention from her parents. She can't stand her mum, and though she absolutely adores her dad, h…
Midnight
Violet has always been in the shadow of her mesmerising, controlling brother Will, and when a shocking secret about Will's past is revealed, things get even worse. Violet retreats further into her own fantasy world, b…
Sleepovers
"Guess what!" said Amy. "It's my birthday next week and my mum says I can invite all my special friends for a sleepover party." You're invited to the ultimate sleepover! Amy, Bella, Chloe, Daisy and Emily are be…
Bad Girl
"Mum said to just ignore them and they'll get tired of teasing. They haven't got tired yet." Mandy is lonely. She's been bullied at school for as long as she can remember. But then she meets Tanya. Fun, daring a…
The Suitcase Kid
MEET TEN-YEAR-OLD ANDY. THE SUITCASE KID. "When my parents split up they didn't know what to do with me. My family always lived at Mulberry Cottage. Mum, Dad, me - and Radish, my lovable toy rabbit. But now, Mum li…
The Lottie Project
Hi! I'm Charlie (DON'T call me Charlotte - ever!). History is boring, right? Wrong! The Victorians weren't all deadly dull and drippy. Lottie certainly isn't. She's eleven - like me - but she's left school and has a j…
The Illustrated Mum
Marigold isn't like other mums. "She's good at spending heaps of money that we haven't got. She's good at getting drunk. She's good at getting completely nutty ideas into her head." Dolphin adores her mum - she'…
