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Frankie Foster: Fizzy Pop
“Everyone seemed to think it was my fault that Rags ate the rissoles. I get the blame for everything! Like when I encouraged one of my best friends to try and trace her birth mother. Mum told me off for interfering. But I wasn’t interfering! I just wanted to help.”
Frankie Foster just can’t resist helping people with their problems. Her help might not always be welcome, she might even cause the odd total disaster, but Frankie always manges to fix things … eventually!
Published by HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780007362653
For age 9+
Available from Amazon.co.uk
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Coming soon in March 2011 |
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Ice Lolly
Now that Mum’s no longer with us, it’s just me and Mr Pooter. Even though he is only a cat, I know that Mr Pooter loved Mum every bit as much as I did. We both miss her so much …
Things would be easier if I could just stop feeling. If I could freeeeze, like an ice lolly, it mightn’t hurt so much.
Published by HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780007281732
For age 9+
Available from Amazon.co.uk |
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January 2010 |
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Extract from Ice Lolly
So this is it; it’s happening. I’m sitting here between Auntie Ellen and Uncle Mark in this room that’s called a chapel, though it isn’t my idea of what a chapel ought to be. Chapels should be beautiful, I think; this is just plain and ordinary. Maybe that is what you get for not believing. In God, I mean. But you can’t be a hypocrite just for the sake of a stained glass window. You can’t say you believe when you don’t. Not however much you would like to. Mum wouldn’t have wanted me to do that. She used to say, “You have to face up to things, Lol.” So that is what I am doing. I am facing up. |
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Love and Kisses
Thirteen-year-old Tamsin has never had a boyfriend, and she's starting to feel left behind. Even her ten-year-old sister has a boyfriend, so surely it must be her turn soon!
When Tamsin meets Alex, she just can't stop thinking about him, and she's thrilled when he asks her out on a date. But he's sixteen and has already left school. Before she knows it, Tamsin is lying about her age and going behind her parents back...but for how long can she keep up the pretence?
Published by HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780007281725
For age 11+
Available from Amazon.co.uk |
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May 2009 |
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Extract from Love and Kisses
I shall never forget the day I first saw Alex. I was walking down Hawthorn Road with my best friend Katie. Best friend in the whole wide world! Friends for ever, through thick and thin, though that was the summer was almost parted company … and all because of Alex. |
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Fortune Cookie
It was Cookie that got us started on our life of crime. Not that he was called Cookie back then. He was just the puppy that lived next door. We didn’t know that he would soon be ours. That we’d have to save his life. Or that he would lead us into such Big Trouble …
Published by HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780007224623
For age 9+
Available from Amazon.co.uk |
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January 2009 |
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Extract from Fortune Cookie
Hi! I’m Fudge Cassidy, and this is my friend, the Cupcake Kid. She’s my bestie!
There’s a photo of us that Cupcake’s mum took last year, when we’d just started at secondary school. We’re showing off in our new school uniforms, which we now wouldn’t be seen dead in. Not if we could help it. We are both smiling proudly, looking straight at the camera. Nothing to hide! No guilty secrets. That all came later … |
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Star Crazy Me
A new comedy drama all about the ups and downs of seeking fame. Carmen is in Year 9 and has serious ambitions to be a rock star. She has a great voice, has taught herself to play the guitar, and with one of her best friends, Josh, actually writes her own songs. The school is having a Top Spot contest for would-be pop stars, and Carmen eagerly puts her name on the list. But when Carmen hears a spiteful girl at her school make comments about her weight, she bunks off school and swears she is never going back!
Published by HarperCollins
ISBN: 0007224613
For age 9+
Available from Amazon.co.uk |
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June 2008 |
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Extract from Star Crazy Me
The day Marigold Johnson called me a fat freak was the day I started bunking off school.
That is a fact. It is absolutely one hundred per cent true. But is it a good way to begin? I thought that it was, but now I am not so sure. I mean, in one sense it was what set things in motion, as they say, cos if it hadn't been for me bunking off school - well! Certain things would never have happened. Meeting Mrs P, for one. On the other hand, lots of really significant stuff had gone on in my life before Marigold went and called me a freak. So now I'm feeling a bit confused and don't quite know how to begin. |
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