JACQUELINE WILSON

April knows she was found in a dustbin fourteen years ago as a new-born baby. And now she's fairly happily settled with her foster mother, Marion. But she's desperate to recall what happened in the intervening years, and to see if she can find out where she really came from in the first place. This novel presents her story.

Magda is tall and glamorous, Nadine is willowy and 'gothic' and Ellie is just plain normal. The three girls have been best friends 'forever' but now Ellie is convinced she's fat; Nadine wants to be a model; and Magda worries that her appearance is giv ...

Mark Spark has a secret - he is afraid of the dark. When Louise invites him to come and stay the night in a tent in her garden, Mark knows that he'll be too scared to sleep. Instead he goes to stay with his great gran, and with her he finds out that the dark isn't quite so scary after all.