Novels
Ever since a witch mobile mysteriously appeared above her cot at Templeton Orphanage, Bella Donna Jones has been obsessed by witches.
She succeeds in putting off all would-be adoptive parents with her behaviour. Then along comes Lillith who Bella really likes.
Bella goes to live with her on Coven Road, and tries to be the model girl – wearing pink and being polite. But Bella comes home early one day, and discovers Coven Road is a road for witches!
Frankie is appalled to hear herself assuring the girls at school that yes she has got a boyfriend. The more fibs she tells, the worse it gets, so she builds herself a robot. The robot is the utterly gorgeous Romeo, and Frankie is the envy of the school. Unfortunately, Romeo has a few personality flaws: he is completely self-obsessed, and doesn't understand that there are some things you just don't say. Frankie is hurt and offended when he tells her she's not pretty enough to be his girlfriend, and learns the hard way that 'perfect' is not all it's cracked up to be. Ruth Louise Symes is a very funny writer. Her characters are engaging and memorable: Frankie, who isn't exactly a success at school, her faithful friend Darren, her genial but dotty parents, and dashing scientist grandmother. Her truthful picture of life at home and school is a solid base for a sequence of hilarious incidents in which Romeo creates a trail of disaster
Anna and her sister Gem, who is confined to a wheelchair after a road accident, advertize in the Lonely Hearts column for someone special for their "Handsome and fun widower" father. The meetings with the women who reply go badly and the girls are forced to rethink their strategy.
For an English project, each student in Raj's class has to correspond anonymously with another. Raj soon discovers that his letter writer is the school bully Gabriel, and worse still, he knows Gabriels secret - that he is a victim of violence from his step-father. Raj is faced with a hard decision.