Hannah in the Spotlight E-Book

Natasha Mac a´Bháird

• Herausgeber: The O'Brien Press
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

The summer holidays are here, and Hannah is wishing she could have gone to drama camp. Instead it looks like she's going to end up being an unpaid babysitter to her younger brothers and sisters. Then she meets Meg, who has just moved in next door, and together with her friends Ruby and Laura they decide to form Star Club – a drama club of their own, where they'll all get a chance to practise their acting skills. The girls work hard to get their first show ready for Maisie's birthday party. Then disaster strikes, and Hannah finds herself torn between Star Club and big sister duty. Meanwhile, something very strange is going on with Meg, who seems to have a lot of secrets she's not sharing. But whatever happens, the show must go on! '9/10 … makes you keep reading' TheGuardian.com on Missing Ellen

Leseprobe

‘Full of fun literary and movie references and packed with family secrets and friendship dramas, this smart, charming book is perfect for Judi Curtin or Cathy Cassidy fans. I loved it!’

Sarah Webb, author of the Songbird Café Girls and Ask Amy Green series.

Dedication

To Rachel and Sarah, who read it first.

Acknowledgements

A huge thank you to all those who read Hannah in the Spotlight and gave me their great suggestions – my young readers, Rachel, Sarah, Alice and Amelia, my one-time drama teacher and now friend Margot Keegan, and my mother Anne, who has always been my biggest supporter. Thank you to my book club friends for all your encouragement and for coming up with the title for me. Thank you to all the fantastic team at The O’Brien Press and especially to my wonderful editor Helen Carr – it is an absolute pleasure working with you and I’m so glad to have you bringing your talents and insight to my books.

Contents

Title PageDedicationAcknowledgements Chapter OneChapter TwoChapter ThreeChapter FourChapter FiveChapter SixChapter SevenChapter EightChapter NineChapter TenChapter ElevenChapter TwelveChapter ThirteenChapter FourteenChapter FifteenChapter SixteenChapter SeventeenChapter EighteenChapter NineteenChapter TwentyChapter Twenty-One About the AuthorCopyright

Chapter One

It’s impossible to get any peace in my house.

Either Zach and Bobby are chasing each other (or Maisie) around the house, or they’re playing football on the landing and using my bedroom door as the goal. Or else it’s Maisie taking over the sitting room with all her dolls and teddies, or Emma crawling along and wrecking Maisie’s game. And then Maisie crying and having to be comforted, and Emma either laughing or else joining in and crying too.

I share a room with Maisie, so I can’t even escape up there for a bit of quiet, because she’s sure to come in and out getting more teddies, or wanting me to play with her. I have been BEGGING Mum to change things around so I can have my own bedroom, but so far the most she has said is ‘we’ll see’. Which is better than an outright ‘no’, but not by much.

I said it to Mum. I said, ‘It’s impossible to get any peace in this house.’

Well, you would swear I had just made the best joke in the history of the earth. She practically fell off her chair laughing.