Sugar and Spice

by Jean Ure

The latest fabulous story by Jean Ure, a must for any girl’s collection! At Parkfield High no one would have thought nerdy Ruth and super-cool Shayanne would be friends – but maybe there’s more to Shayanne than meets the eye. Ruth is not enjoying her new school. Things were fine at her junior school, but here at Parkfield High, if you’re not in a gang you’re no one. Even her old mates don’t want to know her any more and the bullies are making her life a misery. Enter Shayanne, the new girl. Shayanne is cool, collected and doesn’t give a stuff about any silly gangs. Ruth is astonished and delighted when Shay pals up with her. The bullies leave her alone and it’s great to have a special friend again. But is the supercool Shay as together as she thinks, and why has she been excluded from two other schools?

Genres: Childrens, Young Adult

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Prolific English children and young adult author.

Had her first book published while still in high school, then studied theater at Webber-Douglas in London. Her most well-known work is the Point Crime novel Dance with Death. Others include Plague 99, After the Plague (previously "Come Lucky April"), Big Tom, Family Fan Club and Shrinking Violet, as well as the fantasy The Wizard In the Woods.

Today, Ure is very popular with British female teenage readers with novels such as Shrinking Violet, Family Fan Club and Passion Flower.

Ure has also translated Danish writer Sven Hassel's WWII novels to English.

Reviews

[Alexa]

predictable and derivative with a rushed ending

[Gauri Godale · Rating 5 out of 5]

frinds mean a lot!

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book I read when I was a preteen

[🦢 · Rating 3 out of 5]

this book was EVERYTHING to me for so long. All of the sentences are etched into the back of my mind. I was around 6 or 7 when I got this, thinking Shay and Ruth were so big and mature, even though they were like 12 💀

[Lucy Dawson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Never read this one before either. A book with a good message about it not nattering where you come from, you can choose to be a good person.

[nadine]

read this as a preteen and need to reread it bc i swear these bitches gay

[Roo · Rating 2 out of 5]

book i read as a pre-teen.

[Jezier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Naprawdę mądra książka.

[rania ꪆৎ · Rating 4 out of 5]

comfort book as a kid 😭

[riyo. · Rating 4 out of 5]

peak

[Sumayyah · Rating 3 out of 5]

funny comedy adventure and action!! good!! rut( the geeky one) is not enjoying school, as she has not friends. but when the new girls shayanne comes in everything starts to hop up. sayanne is cool, doesn't give a damn about homework. her mum and dad are vampires. (weird) and Ruth stops getting bullied in school, all thanks to shayanne. when the two of them get together, Ruth's mum is not pleased. she thinks that the girls is trouble. when they have a bit of fun they get caught and her mum was right she was trouble.

[Stephanie Silva · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ruth spicer hates school when Shayanne Sugar comes along-SHOCK HORROR!-wants to be her friend,things begin to look up,but Shay is hiding somthing,do best friends tell eachother everything...?

[Unknown · Rating 5 out of 5]

good book :)

[Quraishah · Rating 5 out of 5]

what a cute book! its just lovely :)

[Emily;') · Rating 5 out of 5]

its an absolutley amazing book!

[Elephants · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was a great way of showing friendship. But I’ve read these kind of stories before. So it was slightly boring.

[Malaika Opany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this movie.Twp completely diifrent girls become friends very fun to read.

[Nina · Rating 3 out of 5]

quite fun

[Grey]

:D

[sofia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good