Jo's Letter

Jo and her friends love the Dear Liz section in their favourite magazine, four pages of emotional, heartachey problems. Jo is fed up because her friends always get the boys. Then she meets Vince on holiday, except he doesn't exist. Now her friends want to meet him. Time for a letter to Liz.Problems with boys? Home? Can't talk to your friends because it's them that's the problem? Time for a letter to Liz...Fourteen-year-old's Jo, Nicki, Zoe and Amber have been going round together ever since they started at the comprehensive. Their favourite mag, Sue C Q, comes out every Thursday morning and they all love reading the Dear Liz section, four pages of emotional, heartachey problems. Problems they can laugh or sigh over. Problems a bit like their own. In Jo's Letter, Jo is fed up because her best friends always get the boys. Then Jo meets Vince on holiday; he's dark and handsome...and he doesn't exist. Now the girls want to meet him. What is she going to do? Time for a letter to Liz...In Nicki's Letter, Nicki is worried about her best friend Zoe who has started pinching stuff. A lot of stuff. And now she wants Nicki to join her. How can Nicki say no without losing her friend? Time for a letter to Liz...Mary Hooper knows what makes a good story more than most people - she's had over six hundred published in teenage and women's magazines such as J17, and is the highly-regarded author of over fifty titles for young people, including Best Friends Worst Luck; Mad About the Boy; The Boyfriend Trap; and the Letters to Liz series. She recently won the 2000 North East Book Award for her teenage novel, Megan. Mary has two grown-up children, Rowan and Gemma, and lives in an old cottage in Hampshire.