Sister Sites
A selection of Books by Jean Ure
These book descriptions have been provided by the author
for your guidance and are not Word Pool reviews.
For more information and ordering details for each book, follow the red
title hyperlink to the appropriate page at Amazon.co.uk
Harper Collins:
BOYS
ON THE BRAIN
0007113730 11+
Honestly! Mum is impossible. She is obsessed
with boys. She has boys on the brain.
PUMPKIN PIE
0007143923
11+
The story of a drop-dead gorgeous girl who has long blond~
hair and a figure to die for ...I wish! I am Pumpkin, and I am plump.
PASSION
FLOWER
0007156197 11+
Of course, Mum shouldn't have thrown
the
frying pan at Dad. The day after she threw it, Dad left home.
SKINNY MELON & ME
0007121520 10+
This is the diary of me, Cherry Louise Waterton,
and I am writing for posterity, in other words, the/uture.
She's also
trying to clear her new stepdad, Slimy Roland, out oCher cupboard
...
FRUIT AND NUTCASE
0007121539 8+
Hi! This is Mandy Small
telling her life story. My dad's an Elvis Presley look-alike.
THE SECRET
LIFE OF SALLY TOMATO
000675150-4 11+
A is for armpit, which
smells
when you're hot. Specially great hairy ones, They smell A LOT:
Twelve years old and never kissed a girl... Sal's keeping an
alphabet of
rude and disgusting ditties. By the time he gets to Z, he's
hoping he'll have managed it with gorgeous Lucy.
SHRINKING VIOLET
0007143907
8+
I am a twin. Unfortunately! It's not always easy, being
a twin,
especially when one of you is a lily loudmouth and the other
a shrinking violet.
BECKY BANANAS, THIS IS YOUR LIFE
0007121512 9+
Becky Bananas
is 11 years old. Her main ambitions are to grow up and be a
famous dancer and be on This is Your Life on telly. But perhaps the biggest
challenge of all is just to reach her next birthday ...
DAISY
MAY
0007133693 7+
Found in a daisy field, brought up in a foundling
hospital, sent to work at ten years old. But dreams can come
true, if you just believe in them hard enough.
DAZZLING DANNY
000 7133707
8+
Go for it! says Danny's teacher. So he does. But not without
misgivings ...can he keep it a secret from his mum and dad?
Hodder:
BAD ALICE
0340817607 11+
The summer that Duffy goes to stay with his
nan is the summer he meets Alice. Bold bad Alice. No one has a good
word
to say for her. But everyone thinks her adopted dad is the
next best thing to a saint. So does Duffy, until he finally cracks the
code
of the book that Alice is writing
Orchard:
"Girlfriends" series
10+
PINK KNICKERS AREN'T COOL 1841218359
GIRLS
STICK TOGETHER 184121 8391
GIRLS
ARE GROOVY 184121 843X
BOYS
ARE OK 1841218472
Polly, Keri, Frizz and Lily ...they're the
Gang of
Four, and they're going to stick together!