Lily has a stammer. The signal between her brain and her mouth is all messed up - and it's getting worse. When a video of her practicing her class presentation is uploaded onto YouTube - head thrust forward, eyelids fluttering, lips stretched wide - Lily's nightmare begins. Cyberbullying, kids at school whispering, even best friend Mia laughing behind her back. Lily's confidence takes a nose-dive and she can only see one way out: run away to Dad in Scotland and start all over again.
But Lily quickly realises that running away isn't the answer - that her stammer will follow her wherever she goes...
HOW TO BE MORE HEDGEHOG is about friendship and family and finding the courage to speak out.
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Anne-Marie Conway is an award-winning author of six acclaimed novels, including 'Butterfly Summer', which won The Oxfordshire Book Awards 2013 and has recently been selected as an Usborne Classic, and 'Forbidden Friends', which won the Southwark Book Award 2014. Unicorn Girl is being published to help raise money to build a new library at a local secondary s
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The second book in a fabulous new magical, middle-grade series filled with adventure, wonder and wildness,
