Juggling Lessons

by Jan Page

Learning to juggle isn't easy...
Nel is a laid-back, unconventional fourteen-year-old hippy, living with her mum in Cornwall. She loves juggling and swimming in the sea, and she longs for a passionate, mysterious romance.
Eleanor is a quiet ordinary fourteen-year-old girl, who lives with her dad in the Midlands. She likes gossiping with her best friend and watching soap operas, and she fancies a boy at school.
The two girls don''t have much in common. Except they're actually the same person! For Eleanor, sometimes known as Nel, coping with her divorced parents, her two homes and both sides of her personality means life is a constant juggling act. In one climactic summer can she learn to keep all the balls in the air at once?

Genres: School

203 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

JAN PAGE is a novelist, screenwriter, and television producer, whose experience ranges right across the age spectrum. Over the years, she has written hundreds of episodes of television and thirteen of her plays have been professionally staged. Jan lives in London and is co-founder of Adastra, an independent production company specializing in the children’s sector.

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Guess what, another book for school

[Claire · Rating 2 out of 5]

Given that this was lent to me by a 12 year old in my Year 7 class, I wasn't exactly expecting Anna Karenina. She clearly loved it enough to think I would enjoy it, so I won't give it one star (she's the target audience after all) but this was a cringey read for me!

[Norah Heilig · Rating 1 out of 5]

Worst book ever, if you have to read it for school just look up a summary

[Asma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had to read for english. Was okay.

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had to read this book for school, and at first I didn't like it. But as I read more and more I began to like it.