This author crafts humorous and insightful stories, focusing on the vibrant world of teenagers. Her writing, often a collaboration with her daughter, is characterized by a fresh, engaging style. She excels at capturing the adolescent experience with wit and warmth, making her books a delightful read for young adults. Her work offers relatable narratives that resonate with humor and understanding.
Set against the backdrop of a spooky castle, this story follows sixth-grader Bea as she embarks on her first trip away from home. Overwhelmed by nerves, she must rely on her friends to help her face her fears and embrace the adventure. Themes of friendship and courage are central as Bea navigates her anxieties and discovers the joys of new experiences.
When Bea’s dad and Taffy decide to get married, Bea is over the moon! But with dad unable to do even the most basic spell, will the witchy wedding happen? Bea is determined to make the day PERFECT.
Bea Black faces the challenge of organizing the Halloween Ball while juggling her secret practice of magic. As a member of the planning committee, she must devise impressive ideas for the event without revealing her magical abilities to her father and best friend. The story explores themes of friendship, secrecy, and the balance between personal passions and responsibilities.
When Bea's class puts on the school play, mayhem ensues! Will they be able to give an unFROGettable performance?
This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. The scandalous image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless and sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work of Roman historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius, has taken deep root in the Western imagination. The stories they told about her included nightly visits to a brothel and a twenty-four-hour sex competition with a prostitute. Tales like these have defined the empress's legacy, but her real story is much more complex. In her new life of Messalina, the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin reappraises one of the most slandered and underestimated female figures of ancient history. Looking beyond the salacious anecdotes, she finds a woman battling to assert her position in the overwhelmingly male world of imperial Roman politics - and succeeding. Intelligent, passionate, and ruthless when she needed to be, Messalina's story encapsulates the cut-throat political manoeuvring and unimaginable luxury of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in its heyday. Cargill-Martin sets out not to 'salvage' Messalina's reputation, but to look at her life in the context of her time. Above all, she seeks to reclaim the humanity of a life story previously circumscribed by currents of high politics and patriarchy.
When some very important visitors arrive at witch school, they're not who the students and teachers were expecting! Can Bea use both her extraordinary and ordinary powers to save the school?
Bea Black is settled into her new life in Little Spellshire, a town with a magical secret. She's made tonnes of friends at witch school, learned how to levitate frogs (just about) and been working hard on polishing up her broom skills. So when the Winter Solstice Grand Tournament rolls round, she's ready to rise to the next challenge and fly high.
It's time for the Year Seven residential trip to Cadabra Castle and new witch Bea can't wait! But with rumours of a ghost haunting the grounds, the class will need to learn some serious teamwork if they're to solve the spooky mystery!
When Bea's dad accidentally enrols her at the local witch school, she has to get to grips with casting spells, like, NOW! But with the Halloween Ball on the horizon, will she be able to master her wand skills in time to WOW?
Geek Girl meets Fame meets New Girl in the third book of this brilliantly funny series!