Phosphorescence - Softcover

Barker, Raffaella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330410245 ISBN 13: 9780330410243

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, 2005

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Lola Jordan feels like a useless misfit among her cool city classmates. Until this term she’s lived a quiet country life on the windswept saltmarshes of north Norfolk. She’s mortified when her lyrical essay on phosphorescence is read out in front of the whole school. But much worse is the ensuing geography trip to her childhood home. Camping on the famous island nature reserve run by her father, a bunch of designer-clad teenagers, including the boy of Lola’s dreams, runs wild. But in the midst of chaos, excitement, danger and snogging in the sparkling midnight sea, Lola learns that the best way to belong is to be an individual.

About this title

Review:

...a lively read for younger adolescent girls... Barker captures the tone of Lola and her contemporaries in a persuasive manner. -- Books for Keeps, November 2004

An atmospheric, lively novel. -- Carousel Christmas Supplement 2004

Book Description:

Mystery, mayhem and romance by the sea in a funny, insightful first novel for teenagers from a best-selling adult writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0330410245
• ISBN 13: 9780330410243
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208