New Releases by Jean Ure

A fun and feisty novel from master storyteller Jean Ure – with a gorgeous look to appeal to all girls who love real-life stories.

Jean Ure returns with more warmth and wit in a brilliant book about what happens when two girls decide to run away from home.

A fun and feisty comedy drama from master storyteller Jean Ure – with a gorgeous cover look to appeal to all girls who love real-life stories.

Hi! Salvatore D''Amato here--call me Sal if you must. I''m writing an alphabet of Dire and Disgusting Ditties. I reckon it will take me the rest of the term to complete my masterpiece.

Even though stepsisters Tash and Emily go to a nunnery (well, an all-girls'' school, which amounts to the same thing), they are into boys in a big way. When their Mum and Dad have to go to Peru to work for a couple of months, the girls are seriously excited when they go to live in their own flat in Aunty Jay''s house.

I never wanted food to turn into my enemy, but when Dad started calling me ''Plumpkin'' i didn''t feel I had any choice ...

Cherry keeps a diary about her parents'' divorce, her new stepfather Roland Butter who draws rebuses for her, and the coming stepbrother or stepsister.

Cresta and Charlie are the best of friends who take their school work seriously and have taken a vow of ''no boys'' until they go to university. Cresta''s mum, on the other hand, has boys on her brain, and behaves like a teenager, which can be very embarrassing. But then the girls happen to go into a record store one day, and happen to meet Sean and Tom. Suggested level: secondary.

Jilly and Clara join the "Animal Lovers," an organization dedicated to preventing cruelty to animals, and try to save a neglected, sick donkey.

Shortlisted for the W.H.Smith Mind Boggling Award 1995 this story focuses on Laura who is intrigued by the children playing next door. But when she meets them, she finds a friendly girl called Zilla and not the children she had clearly seen in the garden. Who can they be?

Three teenagers attempt to survive on their own when a devastating plague sweeps London.

Nick and Christopher are each others only friend until Sal tempts Christopher away, and Nick reaches crisis point.

Shunned by the other children in his class because of his hearing problems, Simon becomes friends with Samantha, a noisy tomboy. But then Simon becomes a hero when he rescues the school rabbit from kidnappers. Now he can have all the friends he chooses, but where does that leave Samantha?

Four teenagers, inseparable friends for many years, try to deal with their conflicting, often devastating, emotions and fears when one of them becomes terminally ill.

Once out of the shadow of her talented and spoiled sister, fourteen-year-old Nicola begins to seriously pursue ballet even though she has doubts about making a long-term commitment. A sequel to "Supermouse."

Maggie, the youngest daughter in a family of doctors, longing to know more about life outside the world of medicine, shocks her family by her decision to break with tradition and take a secretarial course.

Due to changing family circumstances, eleven-year-old Elizabeth attends a new school, where she learns to adjust with the help of a classmate very different from herself.

When her pretty and talented but willful younger sister becomes her rival for a role in a local show, eleven-year-old Nicola reluctantly steps aside but finds that her own special talents have not gone unnoticed.

Due to changing family circumstances, eleven-year-old Elizabeth attends a new school, where she learns to adjust with the help of a classmate very different from herself.