Booklist
Booked Up 2008
Scarlett
Scarlett
Cathy Cassidy
Twelve-year-old Scarlett is a rebel. She wears outrageous clothes, has a tongue stud, no respect for authority and is totally cool. At her wit’s end, her mum decides to send Scarlett to Ireland to live with her dad and his new pregnant wife. Furious at being sent away, Scarlett refuses to become part of her dad’s new family and thinks that things can’t get any worse. Only then does she meet the mysterious boy riding a black horse and suddenly things don’t seem half as bad...
Cathy Cassidy
Scarlett
Cathy Cassidy wrote and illustrated her first book at eight years old. She has worked as an editor on Jackie magazine, a teacher, and as agony aunt on Shout magazine. She lives in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, with her husband, two children, three cats, two rabbits and a mad hairy lurcher called Kelpie. Cathy Cassidy's warm, funny, tender fiction including Dizzy,Indigo Blue, Sundae Girl and many more has won her an army of dedicated fans. The power and importance of friendship is at the heart of each of her books but most crucially, Cathy brings an element of magic to every story, discovering the magic that exists in every corner, in every day and sprinkling it through her narrative. Her website is the place to be for any diehard Cathy Cassidy fan, featuring top gossip, creative writing competitions, downloadable freebies and much more. She has written seven hugely successful novels for Puffin.
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"Of course, getting kicked out of Greenhall Academy is no joke. Head teachers and school secretaries don’t scare me, but Mum – well, that’s a different story.
We travel home on the tube in stony silence, which is not good news. The first time I got excluded from Greenhall, Mum laughed and said that dyeing your hair green in the school toilets was hardly a criminal offence.
OK, I shouldn’t have nicked that bottle of hydrogen peroxide from the chemistry lab, but I’d heard the stuff was used in hair dye, and I was truing to get a few cool blonde streaks. I didn’t know it would turn my hair into something that looked, felt and smelt like a clump of mouldering seaweed. Attractive – not."
Extract taken from Scarlett by Cathy Cassidy published by Puffin Books.



Average Rating
It is from Scarlett's point of view so you can really get a feel the way Scarlett does.
The fantastic book Scarlett is and still will be in years to come the best book I have ever read.
I'm sure that this can relate to any teenagers; this is a book for everyone!
Every chapter surprises you with a new crisis of exciting new things. I promise everyone who reads this will not be able to put it down.
Every time I was busy and had to stop reading I will tell myself ‘next full stop' and I ended up reading a whole extra chapter.