Mrs Butler's Blog 17
Number 17 November 2005
Two great books for girls!
Deep End by Sam Hutton
I’ve just read a girl’s answer to Alex Rider. It’s fantastic. Maddie Cooper is a star at the Royal Ballet School, dreaming of a career as a professional dancer, when her life is wrecked in an instant A hitman shoots her mother dead, wounds her father and shatters Maddie’s hip. (I have considerable fellow-feeling for her at this point!)
When she gets out of hospital and begins to consider a new career she opts to visit her father’s office for work experience. Now, even though he is in a wheelchair, her dad is a top cop, in charge of Police Investigation Command. Somehow Maddie gets herself on to the team (at sixteen!) gets kidnapped, rescued and gets revenge on the crooks who killed her mother – all in 24 hours. I’m sure there will be more Maddie Cooper adventures. Stand by for a series of Special Agents.
Mates, Dates and Cosmic Kisses by Cathy Hopkins
I’d never read any of this popular series so I thought I’d try it this weekend. I started on Number 2 but it didn’t matter.
It opened with a bang! Izzie is disgusted that she’s got to wear a bright green bridesmaid’s dress to her step-sister’s wedding so she dyes her hair green to match. She’s very funny.
“Then my grandma would have been proud – Irish roots and all that. Geddit? Emerald green roots?”
She’s really surprised that everyone is upset!
Izzie has two good friends, Nesta and Lucy, but she nearly fouls up her friendships because she’s a real pain, drooping over the dream-boy she met on the aromatherapy stall at Camden Lock market. The relationship with Mark is off-on throughout the book. Will they ever get as far as the Cosmic Kisses?
I do hope the other books in the series are about the same three friends because I liked them so much. I was tickled by the reference (homage?) to Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison and I thought Izzie’s song lyrics were stunning. I’ll have to try another to see if she can keep it up.
Two great books for girls!
Deep End by Sam Hutton
I’ve just read a girl’s answer to Alex Rider. It’s fantastic. Maddie Cooper is a star at the Royal Ballet School, dreaming of a career as a professional dancer, when her life is wrecked in an instant A hitman shoots her mother dead, wounds her father and shatters Maddie’s hip. (I have considerable fellow-feeling for her at this point!)
When she gets out of hospital and begins to consider a new career she opts to visit her father’s office for work experience. Now, even though he is in a wheelchair, her dad is a top cop, in charge of Police Investigation Command. Somehow Maddie gets herself on to the team (at sixteen!) gets kidnapped, rescued and gets revenge on the crooks who killed her mother – all in 24 hours. I’m sure there will be more Maddie Cooper adventures. Stand by for a series of Special Agents.
Mates, Dates and Cosmic Kisses by Cathy Hopkins
I’d never read any of this popular series so I thought I’d try it this weekend. I started on Number 2 but it didn’t matter.
It opened with a bang! Izzie is disgusted that she’s got to wear a bright green bridesmaid’s dress to her step-sister’s wedding so she dyes her hair green to match. She’s very funny.
“Then my grandma would have been proud – Irish roots and all that. Geddit? Emerald green roots?”
She’s really surprised that everyone is upset!
Izzie has two good friends, Nesta and Lucy, but she nearly fouls up her friendships because she’s a real pain, drooping over the dream-boy she met on the aromatherapy stall at Camden Lock market. The relationship with Mark is off-on throughout the book. Will they ever get as far as the Cosmic Kisses?
I do hope the other books in the series are about the same three friends because I liked them so much. I was tickled by the reference (homage?) to Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison and I thought Izzie’s song lyrics were stunning. I’ll have to try another to see if she can keep it up.
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