A new novel for teenagers – Winner of Manchester Book Award 2011
Oxford University Press 978-01927 5604 6 £6.99
You can’t wait for the camping trip. You’re heading off for a weekend with your friends, free from your parents, away from the disciplines of timetables and school.
But a blip in the weather system means that the expedition goes wrong from the start.
Gussie wants to go to school like every other teenage girl and find out what it’s like to kiss a boy. But she’s just had a heart and lung transplant and she’s staying on London to recover from the operation.
Between managing her parent’s love lives, waiting for her breasts to finally start growing, and trying to hide a kitten in her dad’s expensive bachelor pad….
Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Of The Year Award 2007
The Bower Bird is the sequel to the critically acclaimed The Burying Beetle which was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award for an outstanding first novel to a first-time writer of a book for young people.
Gussie lives in Cornwall and, like most twelve-year-olds, is quickly [...]
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