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Tracey Morait  Synopsis   Abbie's Rival

 

Abbie’s Rival

by

Tracey Morait

 

 

Synopsis

 

This work is suitable for middle readers (age 9-12) and approximately 46,000 words (computer count)

 

Fourteen-year-old Abbie Palmer is ecstatic when she receives an e-mail at the end of June from her beautiful sixteen-year-old French ‘e-mate’ Colette telling her she wants to visit. Then she realises Colette will find out Abbie lied about her background in her e-mails, so she tries to put her off with a message saying she is going away for the summer and Shireen, Abbie’s best friend, is relieved because she is jealous of Colette.

 

Unfortunately Colette doesn’t get Abbie’s message. She turns up unexpectedly a few days later and that’s when Abbie’s problems start. First of all Colette turns out to be an absolute stunner. She looks more like eighteen than sixteen and Abbie feels young and fat in comparison. Secondly Abbie has fallen in love with the gorgeous Richard Farnham, a young teaching student of French who is going to do his placement at Abbie’s school, but Richard falls for Colette instead, even though Colette claims to be in love with someone else. Abbie is heartbroken but tries not to let them know how she feels. She is happy when they split up but it takes a chance meeting with a boy called Vinnie Jackson to help heal her wounds.