Jake Cooke has just had the surprise of his life. He already knew he had a no-good dad but now he's got four half-sisters that he never knew existed. When Jake's talent for trouble causes chaos at home, he runs away to meet his new family. The Chocolate Box Girls is a series of seven books by Cathy Cassidy, plus a short story for World Book Day, Bittersweet. Each book is told from the viewpoint of a different member of the Tanberry siblings. My first book, Dizzy, was published eleven years ago this summer, so I was clearly fairly ancient! My kids were aged nine and ten and I had decided to have a proper go at making my childhood writing dreams come true.

All the teenage humours of romance, jealousy, friendship and sorrow rage freely in this brilliantly observed story of contemporary life.' - Julia Eccleshare, Lovereading4kids.co.uk The next scrumptious story in Cathy Cassidy's Chocolate Box Girls series, following Cherry Crush and Marshmallow Skye. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson. No, they’re fictional – but with little threads I relate to woven into their characters, as we’ve seen! They are my ideal dream-family, I think. I was an only child for six years growing up, and then my little brother came along and he was and is great, but I’d imagined a very different family by that point; a big sister I could look up up, who’d show me things… a little sister who would look up to ME… and a twin who would always be there for me and always understand. This blueprint eventually evolved into the Chocolate Box Girls sisters! The more Summer tries to find perfection, the more lost she becomes. Will she realise - with the help of the boy who wants more than friendship - that dreams come in all shapes and sizes?This has been an incredible experience for us and one that we will never forget. We had a wonderful time and it was awe-inspiring to meet Cathy and see what a lovely person she is in real life. Meeting Cathy has been an experience that has inspired us to keep on writing our own creations… In many ways it has motivated us to think outside of the (chocolate) box! Here are some of the questions we got to ask her: After the amazing twist at the end of Sweet Honey, the sixth and final book in Cathy Cassidy's Chocolate Box Girls series follows Jake, the Tanberry sisters' newly discovered half-brother...

I write directly onto a laptop these days as it makes it so easy to edit and alter things as you go. When I started out, I wrote everything out in longhand in exercise books, then trained myself to type with two fingers on the ancient manual typewriter my dad used for typing invoices for his car repair business. These days I have a MacBook Air laptop and I love it. Summer has always dreamed of dancing, and when a place at ballet school comes up, she wants it so badly it hurts. Honey is going to live with her dad in Australia and her new life is a dream come true - until school begins. The girls are different from Honey's friends in England and the only person who seems to understand her is the cute boy from the beach she's chatting to online. But when he, the girls at school and even her dad start breaking promises, who can she trust? All alone on the other side of the world, Honey's past is about to catch up with her. This is the fifth book in the series. Cathy Cassidy was voted Queen of Teen in 2010 - beating Jacqueline Wilson and Louise Rennison to the throne.Middle school ends and the holidays begin, but unlike her sisters, Summer has no time for lazy days and sunny beach parties. The audition becomes her obsession, and things start spiralling out of control . . . But Jake's about to realize he can only escape his problems and his future for so long. However far you go, you can't outrun destiny . . . Honey is my favourite. She’s a drama queen and a trouble maker, but I love her because wherever Honey is, that’s where the story is too!