Bea Hogg is shy but fiery inside. When national dance competition Starwars comes to her school looking for talent, she wants to sign up. It's just a shame her best friend agreed to enter with school super-cow Pearl Harris. Bea will fight back! But when school hottie, Ollie Matthews, who also happens to be Pearl's boyfriend, decides to enter the competition with Bea, she will have more than a fight on her hands.
This warm, nuanced, hilarious story about friendship, fortitude . . . and dancing is impossible not to fall in love with. Jenny's voice is fresh and convincing, and she handles both darker and lighter elements of the story with equal panache.
Flirty Dancing.
With a really enjoyable storyline filled with the highs and lows of friendship, importance of family and having a confident sense-of-self, I found Flirty Dancing to be a genuinely lovely read which delivered on every front. Cute, funny and with some more meaningful messages at its core, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who's ever felt insecure at school because of their shape, or wanted to fit in with the 'popular group' who actually aren't so nice after all. Reviewed by Eugenia Alabasinis
QBD, 31/07/2014
