This is a genuinely funny story about adolescent friendship
- with some excruciating moments! Jenny & Amy are best friends they do everything together. Now theyre about to start High School & Amy says its the perfect opportunity to reinvent themselves & get in with the popular set. Jenny doesnt understand why Amy is so desperate to fit in all of a sudden
- she thought they both enjoyed being unique. At first she tries to keep up with Amy: she diets goes to the school dance even dyes her hair (unsuccessfully!). But the harder she tries to be tall thin & blonde the more miserable she becomes & the two drift apart as Amy spends more & more time with the popular Rosie Henley & her followers. Jenny finds that a group nicknamed the Martians"
- due to their unfashionable appearance & oddball behaviour
- appeals to her more. Finally she gets involved with the non-conformist brother of one of the Martians & commits social suicide by dressing as a frog to protest against unnecessary dissections in Biology! This is a reissue of a bestseller first published in 1993."