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.

A brilliant comedy drama from Jean Ure, all about the ups and downs of seeking fame.

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

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.

One of Jean Ure''s series of stories written in diary form. Salvatore d''Amato - or Sally Tomato, as he''s sometimes called, is out to get a girl and he has a plan: he''s going to write some Disgusting Ditties - one for each letter of the alphabet, and start some secret body-building, too.

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

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 his twins Joel and Gemma to go with him

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 his twins Joel and Gemma to go with him

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?

The timid son of a wealthy businessman and an abused sixteen-year-old girl lacking self-esteem flee from their respective homes, accidentally meet, and work out their problems while rooming together in a condemned building in London.

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