Shrinking Violet
By Jean Ure
2001
First Published
3.58
Average Rating
176
Number of Pages
Part of Series
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…
Avg Rating
3.58
Number of Ratings
408
5 STARS
21%
4 STARS
30%
3 STARS
37%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
Jean Ure
Author · 61 books
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.
