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Diary series by Jean Ure (Books 1-7, 9)
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Overview: Jean Ure was born in Surrey, and when growing up, knew that she was going to be a writer but she also wanted to be a ballet dancer. She wrote her first novel when she was six years old which was about a little girl called Carol. Jean spent her teenage years writing and had her first book published when she was just sixteen - an event that prompted her to leave school the following year to continue writing. However she spent the next several years 'scrubbing floors, waiting at tables, selling groceries'. Jean also worked as a nurse and at the BBC before enrolling at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she met her husband. She worked for several years in Paris as a translator for DATO and UNESCO and wrote romantic novels.
Genre: Children | Young Adult

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1. Skinny Melon and Me (1996) - Cherry's teacher has told her that keeping a diary is a good way to unclog your head - and Cherry certainly has a lot on her mind. Cherry's mother has just re-married, much to her disgust. Her best friend Skinny Melon is a sounding board for Cherry's disproval of her step-father, Roland Butter.

2. Becky Bananas: This is Your Life! (1997) - A standout title in Jean Ure's acclaimed series of humorous, delightful and poignant stories written in the form of diaries and letters which make them immediately accessible to children. Becky Bananas is eleven years, nine months, three days and fourteen hours old and her great ambitions are:
. To visit the world-famous Wonderland theme park
. To star on the TV programme This Is Your Life
. To become a famous dancer
. And to be twelve
A poignant and heartwarming story of Becky Bananas, who has leukaemia.

3. Fruit and Nutcase (1998) - Mandy Small has trouble writing so Cat, her teacher, suggests that she tells her life story into a tape recorder. So begins Mandy's funny, and sometimes sad, story of life with her loving but irresponsible parents--Dad, the Elvis look-alike, and Mum, whose idea of a special meal is burnt toast. Then there is school, where the horrible Tracey Bigg picks on Mandy and her timid friend Oliver--not to mention Old Misery Guts, the landlady, and Nan, who thinks that Mandy's parents aren't fit to look after her. With so many things to worry about, Mandy begins to think that she is in danger of turning into a real fruit and nutcase.

4. The Secret Life of Sally Tomato - No child is every ordinary - certainly not Salvatore d'Amato, or Sally Tomato, as he's sometimes called. He's out to get a girl and he has a plan; he's going to write a Disgusting Ditty for each letter of the alphabet, and take up secret body building without his sister noticing.

5. Shrinking Violet (2002) - The fifth gloriously funny and poignant book in Jean Ure's series of 'secret' diary stories. Lily and Violet are twins -- physically identical but quite opposite in character. Lily is brash, up-front and in your face. Lily Loudmouth, her dad calls her. Violet is timid and shy. She lives very much in Lily's shadow -- a shrinking violet. Finding it difficult to make friends, Violet finds the perfect solution in Katie, her new pen pal. Soon the two are writing at a fast and furious pace and become very attached to each other. That is, until Katie suggests that they meet...

6. Pumpkin Pie (2002) - The sixth gloriously funny and poignant book about family life in Jean Ure's series of 'secret' diary stories. Who wants to be one of three? And who wants to be the middle one of three? Polly is stuck in the middle, with a beautiful, fashion-conscious older sister and a high-achieving younger brother grabbing all the attention. Polly wants to be the one to get noticed, the one to become a famous actress, the one who is thin. But when Polly decides to take drastic action to shed pounds, she loses more than just weight.

7. Passion Flower (2003) - The seventh title in Jean Ure's acclaimed series of humorous and poignant stories. There's trouble ahead when Steph and Jessica's father embarks on a spot of kidnapping. Of course, Mum shouldn't have thrown the frying pan at Dad. The day after she threw it, Dad left home... Parents! First they're together, then they're apart. For Stephanie, a hip fourteen year old, and Jessica, her ten-year-old sister, being stuck in the middle of their parent's problems is just what they need. Not. When Dad decides that what the girls really need is a summer holiday with him in Brighton, they jump at the chance. No rules, no hassle, no worries. But things never turn out the way you think, and Steph and Sam soon discover there's a lot more to being a family than they thought...

9. Boys Beware (2005) - Even though Tash and Emily go to an all girls' school, they are into boys in a BIG WAY. They're also stepsisters and the best of friends. So when their mom and dad have to go Peru for work for a couple of months, leaving the girls in their own flat in Aunty Jay's house, they are seriously excited. Of course they've got to take their weird elder sister, Ali, hundreds of her Star Trek videos, and Fat Man the cat, but apart from that they are INDEPENDENT GIRLS. And when they find out that there's a dishy boy living in the flat downstairs, they just can't believe their luck.

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