Product Description: The third book in Jean Ure's Foster Family series. Fourteen-year-old Ellen comes to stay with a foster family. She's loud, childish and so clumsy! She's driving them mad. Will they ever be friends with a girl like that?

Scarlett, is finding out that life is full of ups and downs, and has to get herself the grades she needs to qualify for the Founder's Day dinner and dance. This book brings out the predicaments of a teenage girl who worries over her mysteriously puffed up eyes, and wonders who would want to take her to the dance in that state.

Product Description: The Hodder Reading Project Level 4-5 identifies blocks to progression and takes pupils from National Curriculum Level 4 to Level 5. It comprises the Teacher's Resource, Pupil's Book and 6 Readers. Reader 4, Bad Alice by Jean Ure. With his mum and seriously ill baby sister in America for a life-saving operation, Duffy is left with his gran for the holidays...read more

More comedy, calamity and cool characters from writer Jean Ure.

Product Description: A humorous, poignant and heartwarming story of four girls and their exasperating parents. Reissued in the Jean Ure branding.“People always fall out after they’re married. I’m going to stay single.”Jasmine, Laurel, Rose and Daisy...read more

Emily and her stepsister Tash are thrilled when their parents leave them and their older sister Ali in an apartment of their own in their aunt's house, but they cannot get the cute boy downstairs to take any notice of them.

At Parkfield High no one would have thought nerdy Ruth and super-cool Shayanne would be friends - but maybe there's more to Shayanne than meets the eye.

Product Description: The second title in Jean Ure’s acclaimed series of humorous, delightful and poignant stories written in the form of diaries and letters which make them immediately accessible to children.Becky Bananas is eleven years, nine months, three days and fourteen hours old and her great ambitions are:•To visit the world-famous Wonderland theme park•To star on the TV programme This Is Your Life•To become a famous dancer•And to be twelveA poignant and heartwarming story of Becky Bananas, who has leukaemia...read more

Mandy Small has trouble writing so her teacher suggests that she tells her life story into a tape recorder. So begins Mandy's story of life with her loving but chaotic parents; the school bully Tracey Bigg; Old Misery Guts, the landlady and Nan, who doesn't approve of the way Mandy is brought up.

Parents! First they're together, then they're apart. For Stephanie, a hip 14-year-old, and Samantha, her ten-year-old sister, being stuck in the middle of their parent's problems is just what they need. Not.

No child is every ordinary - certainly not Salvatore d'Amato, or Sally Tomato, as he's sometimes called. He's out to get a girl and he has a plan; he's going to write a Disgusting Ditty for each letter of the alphabet, and take up secret body building without his sister noticing.

Product Description: Danny loves dancing, but not the funky, popular variety that would have his friends green with envy; no, Danny loves Ballet. A ‘Billy Elliot’ for younger readers by this renowned ballet-loving author.Danny loves ballet, but he daren’t admit it to his mates...read more

Product Description: Rags to riches story of a young orphan who becomes a famous actress. A Roaring Good Read launch title.Daisy is brought up in a foundling's hospital in Victorian times. At ten she is sent into service as a skivvy at the Dobell Academy...read more

Lily and Violet are twins - physically identical but opposite in character. Lily is brash whereas Violet is timid and shy. Finding it difficult to make friends, Violet finds the solution in Katie, her new pen pal. The girls become very attached to each other, until Katie suggests they meet.

Product Description: Cresta's diary starts: "My mum! She has boys on the brain!" She and Charlie are seriously embarrassed by their parents who insist on behaving like teenagers. The girls are serious about their schoolwork and their careers—and they are not going to waste their time thinking about boys...read more

Three of Jean Ure's best-loved stories in a bumper 3-in-1 edition: 'SKINNY MELON AND ME', 'BECKY BANANAS' and 'FRUIT AND NUTCASE'.

Product Description: A third story about Junior Wizard Ben-Muzzy and his twin companions by one of the most popular children's book authors. It's All Spells' Night, the broomstick is waiting and Junior Wizard Ben-Muzzy is ready for action. He's been dared to play a trick on a grungy old witch called Grimwade and he wants the twins Joel and Gemma to go with him...read more

Joel's brother, Noah, is a real heart-throb, always dating different girls. But when Lars Kennedy turns up things seem to change. Tall, blond and gorgeous, everyone falls for Lars - even Joel's mum! Then comes a startling revelation. One that will have fatal consequences... but will also be the start of a new life. Ages 14+.

Me dicen Sara Tomate es la historia de un pre-adolescente de 12 años llamado Salvatore d'Amato (apodado Sara Tomate), quien piensa que el hecho de no haber dado nunca un beso a una chica es algo deprimente y perturbador. La trama central gira en torno a que Salvatore busca besar Lucy, su amor imposible, por lo que escribe poemas para tratar de conquistarla. La historia se caracteriza por las situaciones cómicas que suceden, debido a la intromisión de personajes que son modelos prediseñados en los chicos de esta edad, como la inmadura sabelotodo (Harmony Hinde), el pendenciero sin cerebro (Kelvin Clegg), el que sabe todo sobre chicas (Stuart Sprague) o la chica objeto sexual (Lucy West).

Clara and Jilly rescue two newborn kittens whose mother has died, and, as members of 'Animal Lovers,' must cope with a rescued turkey left on Clara's doorstep

Jilly and Clara rescue a wounded fox, take it to a wildlife hospital to be nursed back to health, and stage a demonstration against fox hunting