Truly, Madly Megan

Dry your tears - "Ally's World" might be ending, but Stella Etc is just beginning. This is a brilliant new series from top combo Karen McC and Spike Gerrell, "Stella Etc" is a must for "Ally's World" fans who need their fix of Karen's humour and warmth, her spot-on depiction of pre-teen girls' lives and fresh, original voice but with a whole new cast of characters to get to know and love. Welcome to "Ally's-World-on-Sea", Here, Stella has just moved from London to a paint-peeling, past-its-sell-by-date, seaside resort town, which feels just around the corner from the back of beyond after Kentish Town. She comes to love it and its eccentricities and the characters she meet there - one new friend is added to the group in each book. This first book deals with the move from town to seaside and the leaving behind of best friend, Frankie. Peaches is the new character, a big, ugly ginger cat, who turns out to be possibly the most important character of all. Karen is thinking of Stella Etc as a 6-book series. Megan whirls into Stella's life like the crazy cartwheeler she is. And she's going to whirl right out again, soon as her holiday in Portbay's over. But that doesn't mean that she, TJ, Rachel and Stella can't have some fun at the Portbay Gala before she goes... Oops, did someone say "fun"? More like "trouble"...