Most Popular Books by Jean Ure

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.

Almost overnight a plague has wiped out the population of England. The only survivors seem to be three very different teenagers. Together they must come to terms with the man-made devastation around them. Fran, Harriet and Shahid have the power to rebuild society, but do they have the courage?

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.

EVERYONE KNOWS HARRIET JOHNSON.

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."

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.