Books with author JENNY ALEX

It's winter and the Pinkers are out of shape - so Dad decides to usethe wholefamily to test out his ideas for a new fit-in-four weeks diet book. Butafter a few weeks of earlymorning runs and cardboard flavoured ready meals, (meaning Peony needschips and double helpings of pudding at lunch every day to make up)Peony's become so unfit can barely walk up thehill home. And she's supposed to be climbing Mount Snowdon in just afew weeks! Can Granget the family back on track with some wise words and common sense?Hilarious family comedy with a self-help twist.

Everyone in Peony Pinker's family wants something. Her dad,a sports reporter on the local paper, wants to get out of doing the problempage while the agony aunt is missing; her mum wants to stop working at thegarden centre where all the plants keep dying; and her big sisterPrimrose wants to be called Annabel. What Peony wants most in the world - evenmore than she wants a dog - is to stop Primrose's nasty new best friend Biancafrom being horrible to her. When Mr Kaminski next doortells them the secret of how to get what you want, Peony decides it's time toput a stop to Bianca at last. But can she get what she really wants?

Jenny Alexander's new book offers a fresh approach to dealing with bullying - both immediately and in the longer term. Helpful 'training sessions' for every day of the week show children that they can take immediate steps to start bullyproofing themselves. But the book also provides long-term help by encouraging children to keep up their 'training' over several weeks, to make sure their self esteem stays high and they keep building solid defences against bullying. Start bully-proofing now!