Middle school ends and the holidays begin, but unlike her sisters, Summer has no time for lazy days and sunny beach parties. The audition becomes her obsession, and things start spiralling out of control . . . Summer has always dreamed of dancing, and when a place at ballet school comes up, she wants it so badly it hurts. Third must-have title in this gorgeous series from one of the UK's best-loved girls' authors, Cathy Cassidy. My first book, Dizzy, was published eleven years ago this summer, so I was clearly fairly ancient! My kids were aged nine and ten and I had decided to have a proper go at making my childhood writing dreams come true.

She and Dad are moving to Somerset where a new mum and a bunch of brand-new sisters await. And on Cherry's first day there she meets Shay Fletcher - the kind of boy who should carry a government health warning. But Shay already has a girlfriend, Cherry's new stepsister, Honey. Cherry knows her friendship with Shay is dangerous - it could destroy everything. But that doesn't mean she's going to stay away from him... But Jake's about to realize he can only escape his problems and his future for so long. However far you go, you can't outrun destiny . . . The first book in the series and is about Cherry Costello's new life when she moves to Tanglewood House to live with the Tanberry family.Jake Cooke has just had the surprise of his life. He already knew he had a no-good dad but now he's got four half-sisters that he never knew existed. When Jake's talent for trouble causes chaos at home, he runs away to meet his new family. It used to be the little blue shed in the garden when I lived in Scotland, but now I’m down on Merseyside I have an indoor writing room with all my favourite things in it. On sunny days I push up the sash window and sit on the sill with my feet on the little balcony and the laptop on my knee, dreaming and gazing out over the park.

The next scrumptious story in Cathy Cassidy's Chocolate Box Girls series, following Cherry Crush and Marshmallow Skye. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson.Life in a rundown flat in Chinatown is a far cry from Tanglewood where the days are filled with picnics, beach parties and chocolate festivals. It's already starting to feel like home. Cherry and her Dad are moving to Somerset where a new mum and a bunch of brand-new sisters await. And on Cherry's first day there she meets Shay Fletcher - the kind of boy who should carry a government health warning. But Shay already has a girlfriend, Cherry's new stepsister, Honey. Cherry knows her friendship with Shay is dangerous - it could destroy everything. But that doesn't mean she's going to stay away from him... No, they’re fictional – but with little threads I relate to woven into their characters, as we’ve seen! They are my ideal dream-family, I think. I was an only child for six years growing up, and then my little brother came along and he was and is great, but I’d imagined a very different family by that point; a big sister I could look up up, who’d show me things… a little sister who would look up to ME… and a twin who would always be there for me and always understand. This blueprint eventually evolved into the Chocolate Box Girls sisters! I write directly onto a laptop these days as it makes it so easy to edit and alter things as you go. When I started out, I wrote everything out in longhand in exercise books, then trained myself to type with two fingers on the ancient manual typewriter my dad used for typing invoices for his car repair business. These days I have a MacBook Air laptop and I love it.