Joanna Nadin

The characters in this book are works of fiction. But, then, isn’t everyone . . . ? 1988, Pencalenick, Cornwall. At seventeen, Jason wants much more from life than working at his father’s pub and when fate, in the form of twins Daisy and Bea and their small circle of friends, offers him a glimpse of another, more glamorous, world, he’s determined to become a part of it. It’s Daisy who Jason is most entranced by, though. Everyone is: she’s the sun around which others orbit. The trouble with the sun, of course, is that those who get too close risk getting burned – and by the end of the summer, one of the group will be dead. 2018, Camberwell, London. When famous actress Daisy Hemmings decides it's time to publish her autobiography, she chooses James Tate to write it. James is a ghost writer: it’s his job to step into other people’s shoes; to tell their stories for them. And he’s good at it. Very good. After all, he’s had years of practice at pretending to be someone he’s not. But what happens when past and present – and truth and lies – collide? Joanna Nadin’s The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings is an unflinching, unforgettable novel about the people we are, the people we’d like to be, and the price we pay for getting what we want . . .

The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings

The Tragically Normal Diary of Rachel Riley

My So-Called Life

Have you ever wished for a different mother? Dido has... Dido Sylvia Jones is six years and twenty-seven days old when she moves from London squat to suburban Essex and promptly falls in love with Tom Trevelyan, the boy next door. It's not just Tom that Dido falls for, though: it's also his precocious sister, Harry, and their fastidious, controlling mother, Angela. Because Angela is everything that Edie - Dido's own mother - is not. And the Trevelyans are exactly the kind of family Dido dreams of: Normal.Dido wants to be normal more than anything else in the world. But it's the very thing that Edie can never be, as Dido - and the Trevelyans, including Dido's beloved Tom - will eventually learn the hard way.Like the very best families, Joanna Nadin's The Queen of Bloody Everything is funny, warm, tender and heartbreaking in equal measure. Part love story, it's ultimately about mothers and daughters: about realizing, however long it takes, that family might be what you make it, but you can't change where you come from.

The Queen of Bloody Everything

Anthony McGowan

MORE HOPE. MORE HEART . . . MORE FOOL YOU. Matt and Sophia live in the same city, but they come from opposite sides of the track. By rights they should never have met. They definitely should never have fallen in love at first sight, of all cliches. But, to their great surprise, they do. That's the easy part. It's what to do next that they struggle with. Friends, family and circumstance are mostly against them. They betray themselves; then they betray each other. And in the end they learn, the hard way, what it takes for love to survive. It's true what they say. Everybody hurts sometimes. But sometimes, too, the pain is worth it.

Everybody Hurts

The Life of Riley

13 year old Joe's life takes a turn for the unusual when his mother tells him she's going on holiday to Spain with her horrible boyfriend. Joe is home alone and despite his mother's strict orders he has a blast! Eating pizza for breakfast, having Xbox marathons and he even finds a girlfriend. But things start to go awry as he loses contact with his mother, starts running out of money and local thugs figure out he may be alone.

Joe All Alone

When 16-year-old Billie Paradise inherits her grandmother's house, she and her family move from their rented flat in London to start their new life by the sea, but in moving back to her mother's childhood home, Billie uncovers long-buried secrets.

Paradise

Rachel Riley's (not) DOING IT diary

The Meaning of Life

Sixteen-year-old Jude hopes to finally become who she wants to be, away from tiny Churchtown and the father who cannot get over her mother's death, by joining a prestigious drama program in London until Stella, her wild childhood friend, returns and causes Jude to wonder if she really wants to be the center of attention, after all.

Wonderland

Jake Jellicoe and the Dread Pirate Redbeard

"My name is not actually Penny Dreadful. It is Penelope Jones. The 'Dreadful' bit is my dad's joke. But I do not see the funny side. Plus it is not even true that I am dreadful. It's just that sometimes my brilliant ideas don't work out completely brilliantly. Like, I didn't mean for my cousin to end up bald and covered in superglue, and I also didn't mean to steal our neighbour's dog and make him speak Russian. It is not my fault. I can't help it. I'm just a Magnet for Disaster"--Back cover. First person recount. Suggested level: primary.

Penny Dreadful is a Magnet for Disaster

White Lies, Black Dare

Rikin Parekh

Worst Class in the World

Eden

Buttercup Jones is 14 years old and she has ISSUES! Her family is completely dysfunctional, her best friend lives life as though it's one big soap, and she has no idea who her father is, but the shortlist reads like a who's who of complete mentalists! And, as if things couldn't get any worse, now she's somehow become the star of the glee club...

Buttercup Mash

Rachel Riley goes back to basics

My (Not So) Simple Life

Just when life's looking up for Rachel, just when she's finally found the ONE, the past, i.e. Justin, comes back to spoil it all. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee and stop viewing life through rose-tinted glasses. From now on, Rachel's only interested in the cold, hard facts of life. Not suitable for younger readers.

The Facts of Life

Rachel Riley is back with a vengeance and ready to seize the day! She's had enough of ill-advised liaisons and is determined to find the ONE. Who knows, if she keeps an open mind, perhaps she can even mould someone into her perfect partner - may the ONE is right under her nose . . . or maybe not! Not suitable for younger readers

Rachel Riley (sort of) seizes the day

Back to Life

Nikki Gamble

Pam Dowson

The Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales series is a collection of some of the best known stories from around the world carefully adapted for children to read themselves. Rumpelstiltskin is a traditional tale from German folklore about a girl who needs help from a goblin to spin straw into gold.

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