Helen Plum Library

Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad's much-loved RED DIRT DIARIES, now with amazing new covers! Ages: 8-12 Blue Weston's life is spiralling out of control. Her parents are sending her to boarding school next year. Her mad twin brothers are building pig chariots in the back shed. Her best friend has been abducted by zombies and replaced with a boy-crazy tween. And then there's the drought that's showing no signs of ending...

Blue Weston is on a mission! * She's starting Hardbake Plains' first ever newspaper with Mat and Ben * She's determined not to like her new teacher, the Colonel * And she's trying to convince Miss McKenzie to come back from Scotland But, despite Blue's best intentions, things don't go exactly to plan...And, to make matters worse, her mum is dusting off the old boarding school uniform! Can Blue get things back on track? And, boarding school? Her parents...

Rachel Lee is enjoying a summer of baking class and flirting with her almost-boyfriend Evan until a rival cleaning business comes to town, stealing her mother's clients, and she must focus on protecting Lee Cleaners rather than Whit, her cute new classmate

A heartwarming tale about learning that sometimes telling the truth has consequences...

Do you have a best friend? That's one easy. Yes!

Have you ever had a fight with your BF? Ugh. Yes.

Have you ever told your BF a major lie? Ugh again. Yes. (More than I'd like to count)

Do you ever wish you were best friends with someone else? No! Well, um...

Rachel Lee thought that ninth grade would be different. That she

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RECHERCHÉE: Femme de ménage pour les élèves les plus populaires de la deuxième année du secondaire. Rachel recueille les meilleurs potins en faisant le ménage chez les élèves les plus cools. Rachel ne peut pas croire qu'elle doit passer ses samedis à frotter les cuvettes des autres. Tellement. Dégueu. Mais elle a, genre, piqué 287,22 $ dans son fonds collégial et elle doit rembourser cette somme le plus vite possible sinon sa mère va...