Magenta Orange
The trials of a teenage temptress
Magenta Orange has the world at her feet. If she could just stop tripping over them. Bright, sassy, and massively accident prone, Magenta's seen as a jinx by her mates - and a disaster zone by the boy of her dreams. Blind to the longs looks of her best friend, Daniel, and the sweet nothings of school freak, Spud, she’s set her sights on year 11 hottie, Adam Jordan - and she’ll risk everything, even total humiliation, in her relentless pursuit of a date...
'A wicked, witty read... 5/5' Mizz magazine
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Magenta in the Pink
The dramas of a disaster-prone diva
Magenta Orange is back - and this time she’s centre stage...
Magenta's desperate to star in the school production of Grease - she's always fancied being a Pink Lady - but chaos at the casting means she ends up stuck firmly behind the scenes. And it's not long before she's getting into trouble again - developing a crush on the leading man, accidentally sabotaging the scenery and trashing ex boyfriend Daniel's skateboard in a vain attempt to impress hunky bad boy Ryan.
Now it's not just the set crashing around her ears, but all the dreams of super-stardom and summer snogging too...
'Excellent' - Teen Titles.
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Magenta Goes Green
The capers of a campsite queen!
Magenta Orange returns!! AS well as battling with the green-eyed monster, she's bringing chaos and confusion to the school camp...
Magenta can't believe that (ex) boyfriend Daniel won't speak to her - after all, when she kissed hunky new boy Chad Albright it was for charity! Now Daniel's gone off with Kara 'fitness freak' Kennedy, and Magenta's left with school geek, Spud.
If that isn't bad enough, she's going on the school camping trip - which is so NOT Magenta.
And to make matters worse, Daniel and Kara will be there too. But not even stampeding ponies and capsizing canoes will stop Magenta going head over heels in pursuit of her dreams...
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Shades of Magenta
Holiday havoc with a hazardous heroine
Holiday time and the heat is on for Magenta Orange. But she's keeping her cool...
Magenta can't hide her disappointment: her dream destination turns out to be a holiday camp in the middle of nowhere. But she's looking forward to topping up her tan and starring in the talent contest... not to mention a bit of holiday romance. Soon Magenta's back on form, with parachuting pandemonium and disaster on the diving board...
Will gorgeous Daniel be able to stop her getting into deep water?
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Magenta Sings the Blues
It's official - Magenta's life sucks.
Magenta's best friends are going to be performing in the Battle of the Bands - but they haven't asked her to join! OK, so she's tone deaf, but that shouldn't be a barrier for the truly talented
And Magenta needs to be centre stage to catch the attention of this year's hottest talent, Spyros Evangelides. If only she didn't have two left feet, she could become a disco diva and show ex-boyfriend Daniel what he's missing...
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Mimosa Fortune
The quirky quest of a psychic time-traveller
Mimosa's travelled the world with her clairvoyant mother - and now she's travelling through time!
Name the country and Mimosa Fortune's lived there - but never for very long!
So when she and her mother arrive in the fishing town of Whitby and set up as fortune tellers, Mimosa's looking forward to making new friends - especially the drop-dead gorgeous Quill Newton.
The problem is, Quill is a ghost who lived over two hundred years ago.
But he needs her help - and he needs it now...
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Blaggers
A comic tale of gangsters, first love and the crooked path to the straight and narrow.
Mercedes Bent is trying to go straight – if only her family weren't so crooked...
Mercedes has carved herself a nice little niche at the Daphne Pincher Academy for Young Ladies, running a sweepstake and taking bets on anything that moves. The only fly in the ointment is her arch-rival, gangster's daughter Harley 'halitosis' Spinks. How come she's got the great work placement and Mercedes has ended up in a boring bank?
But things start to look up when Mercedes wangles a date with the bank's hottest young trainee, Zak - until she finds out that it's not just the Spinks gang who are into dodgy dealing; her own brothers are as crooked as a pair of corkscrews too! It's a safe bet that Mercedes will have to keep her family's illegal activities under wraps - if she's to have even an outside chance with the boy of her dreams...
'Assertive and ingenious heroine. A fun read.' School Librarian vol. 52
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Diamond Geezers
A gem of a heroine. A plan with a fatal flaw. A comic thriller to die for.
Modesty de Mise is dead set on saving the local cemetery from developers. It's right next to where she lives, above her parents' business - a funeral parlour!
And, as if that isn't bad enough, things start to look grave when teen-mobster Harley 'halitosis' Spinks turns up to arrange some gangster funerals after a failed diamond robbery. And she’s also in cahoots with the developers!
When hunky Oz Appleby turns up again after four years away,
Modesty thinks she's found an ally at last - but why would anyone want to date an undertaker’s daughter? Modesty's got to act fast, or her plans to beat the gangsters will go six feet under. But if her parents discover any of this, she'll be dead meat...
'Cracking stuff - Echo Freer writes a gripping story.' Martina Cole
'A gripping mix of romance and thriller.' Book Mark Magazine
Long-listed for the Leicester Book of the Year 2005
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