Hayley Long

A remarkable tale of confusion and betrayal - and a very special girl called Sophie.'Some stories are hard to tell.Even to your very best friend. And some words are hard to get out of your mouth. Because they spell out secrets that are too huge to be spoken out loud.But if you bottle them up, you might burst.So here's my story. Told the only way I dare tell it.'Sophie Nieuwenleven is sort of English and sort of Belgian. Sophie and her family came to live in Belgium when she was only four or five years old, but she's fourteen now and has never been quite sure why they left England in the first place. Then, one day, Sophie makes a startling discovery. Finally Sophie can unlock the mystery of who she really is. This is a story about identity and confusion - and feeling so utterly freaked out that you just can't put it into words. But it's also about hope. And the belief that, somehow, everything will work out OK.SOPHIE SOMEONE is a tale of well-intentioned but stupid parenting, shock, acceptance and, ultimately, forgiveness, written in a brave, memorable and unique language all of its own.

Sophie Someone

A powerfully told story of the love between two brothers in the aftermath of a family tragedy.

The Nearest Faraway Place

Le monde de Griff et Dylan, 13 et 15 ans, s'écroule à la fin de l'été, quand un accident de voiture les laisse orphelins. Installés à New York depuis peu, les deux frères sont d'abord recueillis par Blessing, collègue haute en couleur de leurs parents. Puis à l'autre bout du monde, chez un oncle et une tante qu'ils ne connaissent pas, dans une petite ville du Pays de Galles, où ils trouvent bienveillance et nouvelles amitiés. Dylan n'a qu'une idée en tête : aider Griff à revivre, protéger son petit frère. Mais il a lui-même son propre chemin à faire, et une dernière vérité à affronter.

Nos vies en mille morceaux

My name is Lottie Biggs and in three weeks time, I will be fifteen years old. At school, most people call me Lottie Not-Very-Biggs. I've never found this particularly funny ... My current hair colour is Melody Deep Plum which is not as nice as Melody Forest Flame but definitely better than the dodgy custard color I tried last week ... And this is my book - it's about important things like boys and shoes and polo-neck knickers and rescuing giraffes and not fancying Gareth Stingecombe (even though he has manly thighs) and hanging-out with your best friend having a blatantly funny time. It is definitely not about sitting in wardrobes or having a mental disturbance of any kind!

Lottie Biggs Is (Not) Mad

Lottie Biggs is back with a bang! In this hilarious novel she discovers philosophy (“there’s a lot of thinking involved”) and contemplates the many bizarrities of her own existence. But when she runs away to her sister’s university digs, loyally accompanied by boyfriend Gareth and best chum Goose, she begins to realize that normal life was quite lush all along.

Lottie Biggs Is Not Tragic

A funny, frank and fearless guide to being a girlBeing a girl is not all sugar and spice. How can you possibly survive school and even think about talking to your crush when you have spots in places you didn't even know you had, your boobs are too big (or too small) and the friend drama is off the charts? Luckily, bestselling YA author and sixth-form teacher Hayley Long provides a straight-talking guide to puberty - from cattiness to kisses, and everything in between. With witty black-and-white illustrations by Gemma Correll throughout, BEING A GIRL tells you everything you need to know about surviving puberty, in an honest and humorous way.

Being a Girl

What's up with Jody Barton?

En Yakin Uzak

Lottie Biggs is recovering from her mental disorder of a significant nature with the help of her counsellor. She has a saturday job in a hairdresser and Gareth Stingecombe and his manly thighs are still the love of her life. When Gareth undoes his trousers, she comes to the realization that, unlike everyone else she knows, she is a virgin.

Lottie Biggs Is (Not) Desperate

Een verre plek vlakbij

Sophie Soundso

Lottie Biggs blir 15 år om tre uker. I bloggen sin skriver hun om livet som fortsetter som før, med problemer både på skolen og hjemme. Hun får hjelp av skolens rådgiver, som er prikk lik Johnny Depp. Og det hjelper. Hårfargen er heller ikke noe problem lenger, for Lottie har fått seg lørdagsjobb hos en frisør. Det som imidlertid er et kjempeproblem, det er gutter. Ikke gutter generelt, kanskje. Men Gareth Stingecombe, med de flotte lårene, som hun absolutt ikke liker. Dette er en humoristisk fortelling om livet til en tenåring, men har også et alvorlig underliggende tema. Fortelling for ungdomstrinnet.

Lottie Biggs er ikke desperat

Being a girl is awesome. It can also be really, really hard. And no one knows that better than girls who are going through it right now. From BFFs to Mean Girls, selfies to self-esteem, pimples and periods and peer pressure, Being a Girl tells it like it is. Friendly, funny, reassuring, and totally honest, this is the book mothers will wish they had had when they were younger, and the one girls will turn to again and again.

‘Vinyl Demand’ sees two party girls plucked from their dead end, debt-ridden lives and thrust into the big time as Superstar DJs. They only wanted to pay their gas bill! Beth Roberts and Rula Popek have a lot in common. They are both 19, both have crap jobs and both live in the worst flat in the whole of Wales. The girls have no money, no boyfriends, family who are thousands of miles away and a final demand for a gas bill which they cannot pay. It all looks pretty bleak until one day when Rula stumbles across an entire vinyl record collection which has been left in a local charity shop. She takes a gamble and blows the money for the gas bill on the whole lot and the dream of becoming Cardiff’s very own answer to the global girl DJ, Lisa Lashes. It’s just a shame she didn’t bother to explain the plan to Beth first.

Vinyl Demand

Me and my sister are twins. She's Jolene and I'm Jody. We've both got brown hair, we're both left-handed and we both have these weirdly long little toes which make us look like long-toed mutants. But apart from that, I'd say we're fairly different. Well, actually, we're a lot different . . . It's hard enough being one half of the world's least identical twins, without both of you falling for the same guy. Jolene's turned flirting into a fine art, but Jody? Not so much. And as if a twinny love triangle wasn't messy enough . . . there's something nobody knows about Jody Barton. Something BIG. Told with the trademark warmth and laugh-out-loud humour of the much-loved LOTTIE BIGGS books, this is a book that will make you think, with a gobsmacking twist you won't believe.

What's Up With Jody Barton?

Fourteen-year-old Pierre's mother is dead, and he came a long way to his present life in Camden. Pierre hasn't seen his grandmother, Missy, since he left the family flat in Brussels' African quarter. She had travelled further than the boy--from Zaire, along with a stack of potions, voodoo recipes, and the means to cast a long-distance hex. Ashley Cochrane taught Pierre English, and he thought the boy harmless enough when term started. Unknown to them both, however, Ashley's ties with Pierre's family go back a long way--and they are bloody.

Kilburn Hoodoo

What happens when your life gets turned u?op ?p!sdn? Ronnie is totally bored. She lives in a crap, boring town with her crap, boring family, and all she wants is to escape and have the kind of life she reads about in magazines. Sometimes Ronnie makes stuff up, just to keep things interesting. Not lies, exactly, more like massive, outrageous, whopping great fibs. The thing is, people have stopped believing anything she says - she's turning into The Girl Who Cried 'Beyonce is Totally My Cousin's Best Friend'. Then one day Ronnie gets hit by a rogue old lady on a mobility scooter. When she wakes up, her life has been turned u?op ?p!sdn and nothing will ever be the same again . . .

Downside Up

Just when things were starting to look up for Lottie her life's gone a bit pear-shaped, wonk-ways and downside up again. Her mum's all soppy over a bloke with a horrible shemo* daughter, her best pal Goose has disappeared in a cloud of nerd-gas and Lottie's in the midst of an existential crisis. There's only one thing to do - get the hell out of Cardiff and go on the road with the gorgeous Gareth Stingecombe (and his manly thighs). But things don’t go to plan, and Lottie starts to realise she might have been a bit me me me lately. . . *a female emo, obviously The wit of Louise Rennison with the depth of Jacqueline Wilson.

Lottie Biggs is (Not) Tragic

If you write a review of this book, please don't give away Jody's secret! It's hard enough being one half of the world's least identical twins, without both of you falling for the same guy. Jolene's turned flirting into a fine art, but Jody? Not so much. And as if a twinny love triangle wasn't messy enough . . . there's something nobody knows about Jody Barton. Something BIG. Told with the trademark warmth and laugh-out-loud humour of the much-loved Lottie Biggs books, this is a book that will make you think, with a gobsmacking twist you won't believe. Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards 2012.

Hayley Long

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