New Releases by Jean Ure

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.

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

When Darren Bickerstaff, the school thug, told us about the abandoned kittens, Jilly and I thought it was a joke. It wasn''t. Being official Animal Lovers, we had to do something fast So we rescued them, but no matter how much we nursed them, it looked like one of the kittens would die.

Reading Age 8-9

The spaceship Sea Queen, taking children from the planet Aqua on a search for a new home, has to make a crash landing on an unknown planet. Suggested level: junior, primary.

Simon and Sam are misunderstood by the other kids at school - Simon, because he has only partial hearing and Sam, because she is seen as an aggressive nuisance. A firm friendship develops on their mutual understanding. 8-10 yrs.

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

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.

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.

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.

Jamie takes ballet classes in spite of his macho repugnance to the idea.