Emily Sparkes thinks having your best friend move to Wales at the same time as your parents decide to have a new baby is probably more trauma than an eleven-year-old should have to cope with. Then she finds she has a whole lot more to worry about when her teacher chooses her to partner revolting Gross-Out Gavin the school trip. Emily is determined to get a different partner and when glamorous new girl Chloe Clarke turns up it seems her prayers might be answered. Unfortunately, everyone has gone Chloe Clarke mad, and Emily finds her 'sworn enemy' Zuzanna has the same idea. Getting and keeping Chloe as a friend proves a lot more troublesome than Emily anticipated and leads her into a whole new set of disasters ...

 

This is book 1 in Emily Sparkes .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.

There are 320 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Hachette Children's Group .

Ruth Fitzgerald grew up in South Wales but has lived most of her life in Suffolk. She wrote her first story at the age of six and immediately announced she wanted to be a writer. Her teacher told her that being a writer was a hobby and she needed to get a proper job. Ruth tried 23 proper jobs before deciding her teacher was wrong. She lives near Ipswich with her family, a tiny dog and five chickens.