Girls Under Pressure
Jacqueline Wilson

The novel Girls Under Pressure is about an overweight girl called Ellie. Ellie thinks she looks awful, fat... DISGUSTING.
Her best friends are both drop-dead gorgeous and Ellie is sick of being the "ugly duckling". So she goes on a diet and she even starts to exercise... She's going crazy, her family and her friends try to stop her, but she doesn't listen to them. Then Ellie meets Zoë, an anorexic girl that almost dies because of her condition...
After seeing the harsh consequences Zoë goes through she decides to stop dieting.
This book was fabulous but it ended " suddenly ".
It's not as easy as described in the book to recover from an eating disorder. You can't be bulimic for a while, loose weight and then decide to "stop being bulimic". It's impossible... Recovering from an eating disorder usually is a really difficult and long process.

The Gypsy Game
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Gypsy Game is the sequel of a fantastic novel, The Egypt Game. The book's main characters ( April, Melanie, Marshall, Elizabeth, Ken and Toby) used to pretend they were Egyptians but after a series of problems they decide to "become Gypsies"...
Toby, who says is an authentic Gypsy, and actually is, brings in real Gypsy jewelry and his father who's an artist paints a Gypsy caravan. So, what used to be called Egypt, becomes a Gypsy camp. Marshall, Melanie's little brother, also finds a dog and names him Bear. In fact, Marshall is convinced he's a bear and tries to train him.
The gang is having lots of fun, and everything seems to be perfect but then Toby starts acting strangely and suddenly disappears.
What has happened to Toby? What caused him to disappear?
If you want to know what happened to Toby read this fantastic book!

Gemma
Noel Streatfeild
Gemma is a movie star who isn't offered parts anymore... So when her mother goes to America to take part in a movie, Gemma isn't allowed to go with her and is sent to live with her Robinson cousins.
Gemma is really worried when she comes to know that she will have to stay 5 years with her cousins: this meant she'd have to go to school there, in Headstone. She's scared of what the other students will think about her, a star who isn't offered parts any more. And what is school like? She had always had a governess and had no clue of what school was like.
With her aunt's help she changes her surname from Bow to Robinson, in this way she will not be recognized...
So Gemma goes to school and she finds out life with her cousins is full of excitement: she forms a singing group with them and she even studies serious drama!

Demon Witch
By : Geoffrey Huntington
The protagonist of the novel Demon Witch, written by Geoffrey Huntington, is Devon March. Devon is a good looking, intelligent, rich guy,and oh, by the way, Devon is a Sorcer of the Nightwing, a demon fighter, a guardian of a Hellohole.
Devon's antagonist is Morgana who looks vurnerable and very beautiful , but very sinister too... In fact, Morgana is a witch ( Isobel The Apostate), who was burnt alive in 1522 A.D. , but turned herself in a bird instead of dying. She had " risen from the flames to live again". And, in fact, 500 years later, in 2022, she came back to life. She wanted Devon to open the Hellhole and releash its hideous inhabitants. So, Devon decides to throw Isobel in the Hellhole, and close her there forever. She wanted the creatures so bad , and so Devon closed her in the Hellhole with them!
This whole story is set both in the great house of Ravencliff, where Devon lives, and in a ancient city square.