Maddie in the Middle
Author: Lawrinson, Julia
ISBN: 9781925815931
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 194mm x 130mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A contemporary and timely exploration of friendships between young girls and the pressures they're faced with in the modern world.
Maddie Lee is in year six, and she feels ordinary and dull. Her best and oldest friend Katy is head counsellor and aiming at an academic scholarship. Maddie doesn't have anything that is hers, anything that is special. Enter a mysterious new girl, Samara.
Samara is pretty, calm and before long is in the popular girls' group. Maddie wants more than anything else to become friends with her. But when she does finally engineer a friendship of sorts, Maddie realises that Samara has a secret. When Samara enlists Maddie to raise money to keep her family from being separated, Maddie finally feels important and needed. So when Samara asks her to go one step further and start stealing, Maddie makes a decision that will have consequences beyond her imagining.
ISBN: 9781925815931
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 194mm x 130mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A contemporary and timely exploration of friendships between young girls and the pressures they're faced with in the modern world.
Maddie Lee is in year six, and she feels ordinary and dull. Her best and oldest friend Katy is head counsellor and aiming at an academic scholarship. Maddie doesn't have anything that is hers, anything that is special. Enter a mysterious new girl, Samara.
Samara is pretty, calm and before long is in the popular girls' group. Maddie wants more than anything else to become friends with her. But when she does finally engineer a friendship of sorts, Maddie realises that Samara has a secret. When Samara enlists Maddie to raise money to keep her family from being separated, Maddie finally feels important and needed. So when Samara asks her to go one step further and start stealing, Maddie makes a decision that will have consequences beyond her imagining.
