Scarlett Award-winning by Cathy Cassidy (author)

Author/Illustrator

Cathy Cassidy

Cathy Cassidy’s stirring teen novels have a huge following. Their optimism, realism and empathy explain their popularity, especially with girls, and are perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson.

More about Cathy: “I was born in 1962 in Coventry (scarily ancient, I know!). I wrote my first picture book for my little brother when I was eight or nine. I loved making comics, too – pages and pages of picture stories, features and competitions. I’d sell my homemade comic to a friend for 5p, then claim it back and sell it again to someone else,they didn’t have photocopiers back then!

I went to Art College in Liverpool, then got a job as fiction editor on the fab and legendary Jackie magazine. Later, I married my boyfriend Liam, went back to college and trained to be an art teacher. I taught in a Coventry secondary school for a few years, which I loved, then moved to Scotland with Liam to start a family.

My kids are 13 and 14 years old now, and the four of us live in a cottage in the Galloway hills with sheep and cows for neighbours. As well as writing books, I am the agony aunt on Shout magazine and sometimes teach art in the local primary schools, which is great fun and keeps me sane. (Well, maybe!)

I’ve been veggie for 30 years, and was vegan for 8 of them – a chocolate-eating vegan, like Storm! I love old clothes, old toys, cars, books. We have three cats, two rabbits and a mad, hairy lurcher called Kelpie (the model for Leggit in my book Dizzy).

I love my family, I love living in the middle of nowhere and I love my work. Of all my jobs, writing has to be the best – it’s the perfect excuse to daydream, after all!”

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1. Dolphin0
   on 31 July 2014

   how did you guys read Scarlett?

   5 out of 5

2. Klealove28
   on 10 March 2014

   It was so good :) :) :)

   5 out of 5

3. bee100xxx
   on 9 March 2014

   Scarlet doesn’t want to go and live with her Dad. If he didn’t go and mess things up for her, Scarlet would of been able to stay at school with her friends and study with RULES! She doesn’t want a Dad who breaks rules all the time! But her boyfriend thinks she’s being selfish and tries to make her change her mind about the way she feels for her Dad! But will it work?

   5 out of 5

4. loobyloulou123
   on 9 March 2014

   I loved this look and this book was the best book I’ve ever read in my life . It also made me cry!

   5 out of 5

5. bookaholic202
   on 9 March 2014

   Scarlett has been expelled like 10 times so her mom packs her off to live with her dad. She is furious but its a happy ending.

6. sopsicles
   on 5 July 2013

   Amazing book my fave so glad every thing worked out in the end!!! Inspirational!! :)

   5 out of 5

7. Too-Amazayn
   on 9 March 2013

   I enjoyed this one, she get’s in so much trouble but manages to call a truce with her step mother.

   4 out of 5

8. TwilightChick96
   on 8 March 2013

   all time favorite book

9. lap312i
   on 8 March 2013

   my friend said this book is amazing

10. natashakrywald
    on 8 March 2013

    brilliant book

11. ellie-melay27
    on 7 March 2013

    quite sad but at the same time, sad in places love it though! 5/5

12. xxChocolateBoxGirlxx
    on 5 March 2013

    Incredible! this book is fantastic. Its about a girl called scarlett who has anger issues and moves from school to school because of her behaviour. But then her mother chooses to move to Dublin where Scarlett meets the mysterious boy, Kian. She feels unwanted but can Kian turn her thoughts around?... read more to find out <3

13. zzzzrose
    on 15 May 2012

    loved this book.

    scarlett is a feisty young girl who does what she wants. he parents split up when she was little and that’s when she became the shouty loud mouthed girl she is today.

    when she get’s expelled from her latest school her mum decides shes had enough and can’t cope with everything scarlett’s doing.

    so her mum sends Scarlett to go and live with her dad in Ireland even though she said she never would.

    Scarlett has a bad feeling about the place she’s been sent from the very start. She thinks she’s been sent to the most boring place on earth and will slowly die of boredom.

    after a failed attempt to skip school by being caught by dad and his pregnant wife Claire she goes to her new school in which there is one class for student in year 3 to year seven meaning she is basically back in primary school.

    during a lesson where she learning the language she loses it and runs off. she finds herself alone lost and has a sprained ankle from wearing heels.

    suddenly a boy appears called kian and Scarlett likes him! Will she lose the bad girl reputation or will she do something worse than having her tongue pierced!

14. AmyXx
    on 7 March 2012

    Half-way through it and its amazing so far i just hope it dosnt go downhill by the end!

15. kicky105
    on 6 March 2012

    Scarlett is much more red headed than the picture on the front! It is very good, Scarlett is very different and when she falls in love she struggles to know how to feel. It’s very good!

    5 out of 5

16. indigobeam
    on 6 March 2012

    Every page brings something new. Fantastically written, with strong characters.

17. nikki657
    on 4 March 2012

    this looks like a very good book to read cant wait to read it

18. mutemath4ever
    on 3 March 2012

    This is a good but weird book, you never can tell what’s going to happen next. The boy she meets Kian, i thought he wasn’t real at first ! It’s a good read, ages 11+

19. ToxicTiger
    on 1 March 2012

    Scarlett is a great book about a girls struggling to cope and find herself in a new enviroment.

20. flossy1998
    on 22 December 2011

    This book is brilliant! Scarlett puts on a facade and comes across strong, bold and fearless. However inside all she wants is to feel welcomed and be nice.

    This book is honestly just …#AMAZING with a capital A mate!

    me gusta/J’adore Ms Cassidy’s books, but now I am going to experiment reading others authors.

    P.S Kevin Brooks is a amazing author…

    5 out of 5

21. CarribbeanCuba
    on 7 November 2011

    This book is really good, 9.5 out of 10!

    Scarlett is poacked of to lived with her dad after she fets in trouble at her school for the last time.

    Smetimes she feels like a parcel, and no body wants her. She’s stayed with her uncle, her nan…She is just being thrown from house to house!

    When she arreived in Ireland, Scarlett tries not to like her knwe step-sister Holly, or her step-mum, Clare or her evil dad who caused this mess!

    A few days into schools-Suprise, suprise, she blows it. Then her dad decides that he’s going to home school her, and its then Scarlett diescovers sweet, cool, charming Kian!