When Sally, a painfully thin teenager, arrives at St Jo's, Emma is very worried. But there seems to be no way to help her until a famous pop star arrives at the hospital...; Tackles the sensitive topic of anorexia; Lively, fast-moving storyline; Hospital TV series are very popular with children at the moment. Life is never dull for the staff of St Jo's Hospital. Friendships develop, as conflicts and personal struggles take place against a backdrop of real-life emergencies. Sue Welford has written 17 novels for children, published by Hodder, Scholastic, Reed and OUP amongst others.

 

This book features in the following series: Jo's Hospital, Saintjos Hospital .

There are 142 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Hachette Children's Group .

Paul G. Young, a biologist and botanist, is a lecturer at the City College of San Francisco and botanist for the William Joseph McInnes Memorial Botanical Garden at Mills College, Oakland, California. Sue Welford is the author of many books for children, including THE GHOST IN THE MIRROR, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award, and THE NIGHT AFTER TOMORROW, which was the winner of the Angus Book Award. She has two children and lives in Kent with her two Jack Russell terriers.