Amelia Firebrand and the Uglies (The Fantastic Borderland of Things) - Softcover

Amelia Firebrand is ten-and-three-quarter years old and lives in a high rise block of flats, Chewing Gum Gutters. She goes to a school for No-Good Children and with just her fat ginger tom-cat for a friend and just her miserly old, Gramps for a family... Life's been rotten as old socks! Until TODAY that is. It isn’t EVERY DAY that Ten-and-Three-Quarter year old, Amelia Firebrand wakes up and can hear the Earth’s heart beating beneath the pavements in Grimy old London. It’s not EVERY DAY. But it is TODAY! Seven days of creation plus an eighth EXTRAORDINARY day. Join Amelia Firebrand on her WILD and WONDERFUL Adventure as she finds her FANTASTIC SELF and saves all of LONDON from the gruesome Wonder Crusher and a massive Brain Drain with the help of some very UNUSUAL and UNEXPECTED FRIENDS. For Readers 8-13+ (and intelligent adults). WWW.AMELIAFIREBRAND.COM

Phoenix na Gig, is a British Children's Author. She lives midway between reality and an incredibly colourful vivid dream. Like her heroine, Amelia Firebrand who finds her FANTASTIC SELF, the Author, Phoenix na Gig had to open to the deep earth inside her heart, ancient and cackling sitting by the fire and telling children stories, magic, healing, wild and true.