A contemporary and timely exploration of friendships between young girlsand the pressures they're faced with in the modern world.Maddie Lee is in year six, and she feels ordinary and dull. Her best and oldestfriend Katy is head counsellor and aiming at an academic scholarship. Maddiedoesn't have anything that is hers, anything that is special. Enter a mysteriousnew girl, Samara.Samara is pretty, calm and before long is in the popular girls' group. Maddiewants more than anything else to become friends with her. But when she doesfinally engineer a friendship of sorts, Maddie realises that Samara has a secret.When Samara enlists Maddie to raise money to keep her family from beingseparated, Maddie finally feels important and needed. So when Samara asksher to go one step further and start stealing, Maddie makes a decision that willhave consequences beyond her imagining.
