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Skinny Melon and Me
Skinny Melon and Me
Author: Jean Ure, Chris ILLBailey Fisher Peter
A smart and sassy novel about the inevitable changes that come with divorce, remarriage, and step-parents. — "One of the worst things about Roland Butter is his name. I thought at first it was just one of his dorky jokes, like: "Where do pigs leave their cars? At porking meters." Ha ha ha -- I don't think so. . . . I am certainly not going...  more »

Cherry Waterton wants a dog. She wants to keep a diary (which she does), and she wants to someday become a pop singer--or even a judge. Cherry Waterton knows what she wants. What she most decidedly does not want is a step-father. Especially if he's goofball Roland Butter, who pushes silly coded messages under her bedroom door. She especially does not want him. Or does she?

In a fresh format that switches between Cherry's diary, her mother's letters, and Roland Butter's rebus notes, this clever and funny novel relates a young girl's struggle with her mother's divorce and remarriage, and of course, the everyday quirks of adolescence.
ISBN-13: 9780006751472
ISBN-10: 0006751474
Publication Date: 6/3/1996
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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