Product Description

Meet the one and only Daizy Star! She’s quirky and cool and loving life in Year Six with her best friends Willow and Beth. But when Dad hatches a mad plan that will turn life upside-down, Daizy is too horrified to tell anyone at all . . . and pretty soon she finds herself tangled up in a knot of secrets and lies. Will Daizy realize that even when she’s sinking, her friends and family are there to help her swim?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2661 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
Cathy Cassidy lives in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, with her husband, two children, three cats, two rabbits and a mad hairy lurcher called Kelpie. She has had massive success with her books for older readers, which include Scarlett, Sundae Girl, Lucky Star and GingerSnaps.

Customer Reviews

Swimming, anyone?
Cathy illustrated both the cover and all the little pictures inside this book. A daisy surrounds each chapter number, stars outline each page number. There's a two page spread the beginning with the main characters drawn out, and comments along side them. That set the tone of the book for me. My favourite picture? The cakes on page 12 :) I'm cake mad.

Now for the story! Dazzy Star is a year six girl (10/11 years old), enjoying life with her friends. There are two plot lines: the first is her father, a teacher, comes up with the crazy idea of sailing around the world. Daizy doesn't tell anyone about it, and lives with hiding the big secret that she'll be leaving school for a while. Her elder, rather moody sister Becca doesn't like the plan. Neither does their mother. But everyone eventually goes along with the plan. I won't say more than that for fear of spoiling the story.

The second story line is Daizy's swimming lessons. Or lack of them. Her parents sign her up, but she embarrasses herself by doing something in the first lesson, and doesn't go back. She pretends that she attends classes, but her lies catch up with her in the end.

Daizy has a vibrant personality. I loved her character because unlike her friends, she isn't interested in boys. She discovers lying isn't a good occupation - it becomes harder and the truth comes out when she doesn't want it to. All in all, she's a good role model for girls.