Most Popular Books by Jean Ure

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

YA. Hi, I''m Scarlett and that''s me ten months ago. Cringe! I used to be sooo wrapped up about how I looked and what people thought of me. Just look at me going completely gooey over Sun God Matt. How could I have been so stupid? If only I''d listened to my best friend Hattie and paid more attention to Simon from the start.

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.