An upbeat, funny, and life-affirming approach to the problem of bullying. Suzanne had thought that the bullying was over once Karenna left the school three year ago. But when she gets a Saturday job in the local hairdressing salon she discovers that Karenna is the junior stylist there and suddenly the old feelings of terror, dread, and sickness in the pit of her stomach come back. Suzanne realizes that in order to get on with her life, she must rid herself of the past ...and of Karenna. * Deals with the issue of bulling in a positive way - in the same vain as a Jacqueline Wilson novel. * Author has previously been nominated for the Carnegie Medal. * Total sales of author's first three titles for OUP are over 20,000 copies, which is outstanding for an up-and-coming author. * Helena Pielichaty lives in Newark, Nottinghamshire. Now reissued in smaller, mass-market format.
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Helena Pielichaty (pronounced Pierre-li-hatty) is the bestselling author of numerous children's books, including the highly successful Simone's Letters, which was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Her series, The After School Club, has eight titles and the bind-up, Clubbing Together, sold more than 25,000 copies in its first six months. A local girls' under
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