Gary Grasshopper and friends travel to another field to celebrate the birthday of Gary's best friend, Freddie Firefly. While there they encounter a group of cicadas who have been underground for thirteen years.
Gemma succeeds in starting a girls' football team at her new school, but bitter rival Tyrone does everything he can to stop the girls playing. So begins a battle of wits between the girls and boys, and also between Gemma and sports teacher, Mrs Lawfo
When she's not burning cookies, or chasing her underwear-stealing dog, Debbie can be found chained to her computer, agonizing over what to write about.
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Debbie Roppolo's stories have been printed in newspapers, magazines, and in several of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books.
A perpetual fan of Beverly Cleary, Debbie created her own mischievous girl character in her first children's book: Amelia Frump and her Peanut Butter Loving, Overactive Imagination (DWB Children's Line 10/2011).
Accomplishments
Her activity/cookbook, Amelia Frump...is Cooking Up a Peanut Butter Storm, is the 2013 second place winner of the Purple Dragonfly book award. She is also an award-winning humor writer.
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