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Scarlett’s in trouble at school. Again. With black fingernails and dyed ketchup-red hair, she’s not your average twelve-year-old Londoner. So her mum—sick of trying to get her into another school—ships Scarlett to her father’s cottage in Ireland. Having to learn Gaelic in a one-room ... read more

Characters/People edit see section history

  • Scarlett: Scarlett is bad news. Shes only 12 years old and wears high heels, dyes her hair bright red and has a piercing in her tongue. She is very upset because her parents divorced and her father moved away.
  • Holly: Holly is Scarlett's Stepsister. She is 9 years old and really wants to be like Scarlett.
  • Kian: He's mysterious and charming but what is he hiding?
  • Clare: Scarlett's stepmother who is quiet and very calm.
  • Mum: Scarlett's mom. She is trying her best, but she can't figure out why Scarlett changed from a good kid to big trouble.
  • Ros: A girl in Scarlett's Sixth Class at the rural school in Ireland. There is only one other kid in her grade.
  • Midnight: Kian's horse
  • Kian: A boy that Scarlett meets. He is magical and mysterious but has had a bad past.
  • Mrs Mulhern: Add a description of this character.
  • Miss Madden
  • Chris
  • Hazel
  • Nan
  • Lough Choi
  • Matty
  • Sylvie
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “"we promised I wouldn't have do it, but i have to."”
    Mum

Setting & Locations edit see section history

Ireland

First Sentence edit see section history

I am in trouble again. It's big trouble - the kind that requires urgent phone calls and whispered conversations in the school office while I sit on a plastic chair outside Mrs Mulhern's room, painting my fingernails black.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Cathy Cassidy (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Country: England
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0670060682
Page Count: 272

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