Ellie May is a totally famous and amazing film star and is desperate to win Giggle magazine’s SAUSAGE (Seriously and Unbelievably Stunningly Amazingest Girl Ever!) award.
Her arch rival Cassie Craven claims to have put aside frivolity and has become serious about the environment. So Ellie May responds to a letter from Lettice and sets out to save the school’s nature reserve. There are many fun scenes that will have readers laughing, for example when Ellie May tries to make-over Lettice and ends up dressing her in exactly the same clothes she started out with. Later she thinks she has done something good by ripping up the nature reserve and replanting it with exotic flowers and building a water fountain, featuring Lettice. She just doesn’t understand why no-one is pleased with her, until she discovers exactly what a nature reserve is and that butterflies don’t eat caterpillars but were caterpillars.
Ellie May has everything but the SAUSAGE and yet she realises that all the fame and clothes in the world don’t make her as happy as having friends and doing things together. This is a really funny book with great characters and is a total antidote to pre-teen chick-lit and celebrity culture. I am looking forward to reading more about Ellie May.
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