Brave New Girl

"I can make things happen — good things — I know it!"

Seren is so full of brilliant ideas — it's just that she always seems to put her foot in it! First there was the dance routine where she fell off the stage. And now her plan to get her sister Sasha noticed by gorgeous Luke Beckford looks like it could backfire…Seren reckons she's just hopelessly accident-prone!

But there's one person who believes in Seren. Her mate Keith is making a film for a national competition and he wants Seren to be in it. Could Seren turn out to be a star after all?

This is a funny, big-hearted story with a lovable heroine who will make you laugh and cry.

Catherine Johnson is an award-winning writer of Welsh/African Caribbean descent, living in the East End of London. Her novels for children include Stella, Landlocked, The Dying Game, Arctic Hero, selected for Booked Up 2009, and A Nest of Vipers, shortlisted for the UKLA Award 2009. She also writes for film and television, and was the author of the screenplay for Bullet Boy, the 2005 film about British gun crime. She lectures in Creative Writing at London Metropolitan University, and is a member of the 2012 London Olympics Committee responsible for commissioning medals. She works regularly with children and teachers in primary schools and libraries across the UK. Brave New Girl is Johnson's first book for Frances Lincoln. She lives in Hackney, London.