Twists Turns and 100% Tilda 6

Dry your tears - Ally's World might be ending, but Stella Etc is just beginning A brilliant new series from top combo Karen McC and Spike Gerrell, Stella Etc is a must for Ally's World fans who need their fix of Karen's humour and warmth, her spot-on depiction of pre-teen girls' lives and fresh, original voice but with a whole new cast of characters to get to know and love.Welcome to Ally's-World-on-SeaStella has just moved from London to a paint-peeling, past-its-sell-by-date, seaside resort town, which feels just around the corner from the back of beyond after Kentish Town. She comes to love it and its eccentricities and the characters she meet there - one new friend is added to the group in each book. This first book deals with the move from town to seaside and the leaving behind of best friend, Frankie. Peaches is the new character, a big. ugly ginger cat, who turns out to be possibly the most important character of allKaren is thinking of STELLA ETC as a 6-book series.Tilda is Portbay's resident gloomy goth - and Stella can't decide whether she should be fascinated by her stripy tights and tutu combo, or freaked out by her unfriendliness.But Tilda is not the only strangeness afoot in not-so-sleepy Portbay. There's the cryptic notes which keep appearing, for one thing, and the mystery of Joseph's House for another. Not forgetting the beach party that goes wrong in a rather peculiar way...The sixth book in a bestselling series.