Sundae Girl 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. kissy9901
   on 20 March 2014

   I loved this book because it is full of surprises. Cathy Cassidy is a great author.

   5 out of 5

2. tomgates27
   on 17 March 2014

   i have read this but not as good as her other books

   4 out of 5

3. loobyloulou123
   on 9 March 2014

   It is definitely the saddest book I’ve ever read but one of the best. It is heart warming and breaking and exciting.

   4 out of 5

4. bookaholic202
   on 9 March 2014

   its so sad when her amnesiac granny dies. BUT IT ALL WORKS OUT IN THE END!

5. natashakrywald
   on 8 March 2013

   okay

6. ellie-melay27
   on 7 March 2013

   good book , can relate to things in here 5/5 . recommend it to 12+

7. xxChocolateBoxGirlxx
   on 5 March 2013

   This book is fabulous. Its about a girl called Jude who is shy with a messed up life.Jude’s dad thinks he’s Elvis, her mum has drinking issues. Her mother tells her that she will stop smoking and drinking but her mum says she cant help it and she is on the verge of drinking herself to death, and her Grandma has an illness where she forgets things all the time.She then meets a boy with floppy hair on roller blades, maybe he can help her and her her knight in shining armour…

   5 out of 5

8. kkitt-kkatt
   on 4 March 2013

   Jude is so sweet. whta happened was really scary but an adventure. i loved the book

9. stupendousteen
   on 4 March 2013

   a great and funny book. it was FAB.

   5 out of 5

10. Strawberrypig12
    on 6 August 2012

    I got this from the library and it was so good I read it in a day! Great book reccomend for ages 11 and up!

    5 out of 5

11. nikki657
    on 6 March 2012

    great book

12. KityyKat1207
    on 10 January 2012

    This book is fantastic and v. sad coz her grandma dies.

    5 out of 5

13. CarribbeanCuba
    on 13 September 2011

    I haven’t read this book yet but i love Cathy Cassidy. I have only read two of her books; Dizzy and Lucky Star.

    This book looks’ really good :D

14. mimis642
    on 2 June 2011

    poor mum of sundae girl aww and the skateboard boy xxx

    5 out of 5