Jolene is happier now than she has been for ages. She loves Darren, her new stepdad, and her two half brothers, and she's going to spend the summer holidays with Brody, which means hanging out with all her old friends at ZAPS After School Club. The only thing bothering her is her mum, who seems to do nothing but shout and nag at Darren these days. Things are getting so bad that Jolene asks her stepbrothers to go with her. They can hardly wait to get out of the house. But while Jolene and the boys are having a great time at ZAPS, things are going from bad to worse at home. And when Mum rings Jolene to say that she's collecting her early and that Darren will be coming separately for the boys, Jolene fears the worst.

 

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Oxford University Press .

Helena Pielichaty (pronounced Pierre-li-hatty) has written over thirty books for children. Her latest series, Girls FC, is set around a fictional girls' football team so she was delighted to be asked to write her first non-fiction book for HarperCollins on a subject close to her heart. Helena's auntie played women's football in the 1950s and her daughter played from the age of 9 to 26. Helena herself has never played football but was an enthusiastic, if inept, wing defence on her school netball team.