Product Description

The fifth gloriously funny and poignant book in Jean Ure's series of 'secret' diary stories. Lily and Violet are twins -- physically identical but quite opposite in character. Lily is brash, up-front and in your face. Lily Loudmouth, her dad calls her. Violet is timid and shy. She lives very much in Lily's shadow -- a shrinking violet. Finding it difficult to make friends, Violet finds the perfect solution in Katie, her new pen pal. Soon the two are writing at a fast and furious pace and become very attached to each other. That is, until Katie suggests that they meet...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #212439 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 172 pages

Review
Shrinking Violet Grown-ups love Bridget Jones' diary, but youngsters will adore Violet Alexander's. Liverpool Echo Excellent for any nine-up and will almost certainly lead to an addiction to Ure. Observer Becky Bananas 'The writing transcends any trace of heaviness.' Guardian Fruit and Nutcase 'Jean Ure never puts a foot wrong.' Daily Telegraph The Secret Life of Sally Tomato 'Rhymes, sauciness, letters, irony, comedy, comic characters... a proper little turn-on for boys. A must-buy book.' Books for Keeps

Liverpool Echo
`Grown-ups love Bridget Jones' Diary, but youngsters will adore Violet Alexander's.'

From the Back Cover
Sometimes I feel like telling Lily that she is ruining my life. If she weren't so shrieky, I might not be so shrinky.

Hi, I'm Violet. Don't go thinking I'm Lily - We may be twins but we are not identical. No way! If I'm a shrinking violet, then my sister's a tiger lily. Lily has friends and goes to parties and I - well, I don't. But I do have one thing Lily hasn't - a pen pal! I'm going to make sure I keep her, even if I have to borrow bits of Lily's life to do it...

Customer Reviews

I Love this book!
I loved this book!! It's about these 2 twins called Lily and Violet. Lily is really noisy, has lots of friends, goes to loads of parties - and Violet, doesn't. Violet also finds it difficult to make friends so one day she got a great idea - to find a pen-pal! The story is told by Violet and it speaks mostly about her and her penfriend, Katie! I really enjoyed reading it! It's my favourite book!

Awesome!
I thought that this book was really good! Its about 2 twins called Lily and Violet. Lily Loudmouth, her dad calls her. Violet is really shy and quiet.
Violet finds it difficult to make friends, until she finds a pen pal called Katie and one day they decide to meet up.

This book is a must read!!!

Really cool!
I think this was a great book. It vividly portrays Violet's despair about always being in Lily's shadow. The book is about Violet, and Lily, twin sisters who are completely disparate. Lily's outgoing, popular and showy, and Violet's shy, quiet and subdued. Then Violet finds a pen pal, called Katie. Katie and Violet have a lot in common...I'd better not ruin the ending!
Overall, I reccommend you buy this book.