The Thing About Leftovers

The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez

Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers

How to Survive Middle School

I Am More Than My Hair: A Young Girl's Journey with Alopecia

The Best Man

Indie Kidd: Are We Having Fun Yet (Hmmm?)

Melonhead

“I’m so tired of feeling sad. And waiting for other people to make me happy and they don’t. And if no-one else is going to make you happy, well maybe you just have to do it for yourself?”

Fourteen year old Georgie Harris feels as if the summer holidays are over before they have even begun. Banned from going to the local drama workshop by her bully of a step-dad and her increasingly fragile mum, she is consigned to six long weeks of looking after her tooth-fairy obsessed kid sister. Sick of feeling like the outsider at home and at school, she starts emailing the one person she thinks might understand; Dylan Curtland, star of the popular soap opera Jessop Close. And when Dylan starts emailing back, Georgie finally feels a spark of hope. At last she has someone who really gets her, someone who really wants to help. But in the faceless world of email all is not as it seems…

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Peter Johnson, 2014

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How to Survive Middle School

Donna Gephart, 2010

I Am More Than My Hair: A Young Girl's Journey with Alopecia

Atira Alexander, 2023

The Best Man

Richard Peck, 2016

Indie Kidd: Are We Having Fun Yet (Hmmm?)

Karen Mccombie, 2006

Melonhead

Michael De Guzman, 2002