Babycakes

by Jean Ure

When Bella arrives to stay with the Fosters, Abi and Sam are determined to be nice to her. Bella's dad is very ill - he's got MS - and everybody has to be very sensitive to poor Bella. But it's really hard to be sympathetic when Bella is constantly boasting about her wonderful parents, her wonderful house, her pedigree pets and her lovely clothes! If she wasn't so confident, the girls would think she was telling a load of fibs. Slowly, Bella becomes more bearable, and she's even quite fun to be with sometimes - especially when she takes the girls to see her posh house and its private swimming pool - WOW! But after Bella's gone, the girls need to return to her something she's left behind - they decide to go and visit her. When they finally arrive at her house, though, they're in for a big surprise ...

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About the author

Prolific English children and young adult author.

Had her first book published while still in high school, then studied theater at Webber-Douglas in London. Her most well-known work is the Point Crime novel Dance with Death. Others include Plague 99, After the Plague (previously "Come Lucky April"), Big Tom, Family Fan Club and Shrinking Violet, as well as the fantasy The Wizard In the Woods.

Today, Ure is very popular with British female teenage readers with novels such as Shrinking Violet, Family Fan Club and Passion Flower.

Ure has also translated Danish writer Sven Hassel's WWII novels to English.