Snap Magic - Softcover

Sunde, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0992575303 ISBN 13: 9780992575304

Publisher: Red Pedal Press, 2014

Synopsis

A bewitchingly funny coming-of-age story about secrets, bullies and pumpkin soup.

Something weird is going on...very weird. Long black hairs keep sprouting from Lily's chin and her dad is looking more and more like a Yeti. Just what's behind this fuzz fest? And is Lily really turning into a witch like her neighbour, Mrs Swan? 

Now the prettiest and meanest girl in class is threatening to tell the whole school, including the cute new boy. Can Lily put her desperate plan into action before the school bully strikes? And will the magical solution Mrs Swan offers work? After all, what's the worst that could happen?

Interspersed with magic, wonderfully authentic characters and a not-so-perfect heroine kids will really relate to, Snap Magic weaves its humour around an anything-but-predictable plot sequence of disastrously embarrassing situations. The themes of trust, friendship, bullying, consequences, family relationships, coming-of-age and peer acceptance are handled with sensitivity and an understanding of the language and interests of the age group. For readers 8-12 years.

From the author of Pond Magic - Lily Padd returns for more magic and mayhem...

About this title

About the Author

Angela Sunde spent her childhood jumping puddles and climbing trees in her family's vast orchard on the outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand. An award-winning language and literacy teacher with experience in both primary and secondary education, Angela is the author of Snap Magic and Pond Magic, and illustrator of The Coral Sea Monster - Australian national winner of the Write-a-Book-in-a-Day Award 2011.

Angela's debut novel, Pond Magic, was part of Penguin Australia's popular Aussie Chomps series. A mix of humour, suspense and magic, it portrays the topsy-turvy life of a pre-teen as she struggles to overcome her cultural intolerance towards her live-in exchange student. 

Awarded a May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship in 2013, and an Illustrator Residency at Pinerolo Children's Book Cottage in 2014, Angela is currently working on a picture book and a mid-grade historical fantasy novel. She lives on the Gold Coast, Australia, with her family, one cockatiel and a Manx cat.

From the Back Cover

"It gets increasingly funny as it goes along, and all those cringeworthy moments are electric! It took me right back to my own tweenhood. Above all, I love Lily - she is such incredibly good fun and so sparky." Catherine Mc Credie, former senior editor at Penguin Australia.

From the Inside Flap

What could be worse than a secret so embarrassing you can't even tell your best friend?

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Pedal Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0992575303
• ISBN 13: 9780992575304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96