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  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409046639
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

Skin Deep




A fun, fresh and thought-provoking story featuring the Sugar and Spice girls

Big ambitions, big bullies and big problems

When 13-year-old Brummie babe, Destiny enters the Bright Sparks beauty contest behind her (ex-model) mum's back, she is determined to prove she has talent and brains - and that she is not just a pretty face.

Together with her cousin, Keisha and best friends, Ebyan and Bee, Destiny deals with every challenge life throws at her - including scary eyeball-to-eyeball confrontations with bully-girl Bella and secret winks from heart-throb, Joel.

And then real disaster strikes...

  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409046639
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

About the author

Malaika Rose Stanley

Malaika Rose Stanley grew up in Birmingham. She has worked as a teacher in Zambia, Uganda, Germany, Switzerland and Britain. She is now a full-time writer and the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the London College of Fashion. She also runs creativity and writing workshops for children and adults. Her publications include Dance Dreams and Spike in Space.

Malaika enjoys travel, singing, reading, ballet and football. She lives in North London near her grown-up sons.

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