David McRobbie
Simon Says
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(David McRobbie Sept. 20, 2014)
Life is not going well for fifteen-year-old Nicola Easton. Her father’s business has foundered, which means selling the family home and uprooting from her private schoolgirl life and move in with her grandmother. Nicola has to enroll at another school and start again, making friends, finding her way around. It’s not long before she meets Chris, a boy in her year at school. He’s funny and serious, and at the same time shy and frustratingly slow to make his move.
Nicola’s grandmother tells a tale of a young girl in far off Scotland who had a similar problem. But the Scots lass hits on the idea of making the timid boy jealous by attracting the attention of another, and more outgoing young man.