Key Selling Points

• With its setting of the popular music milieu, this is a realistic look at grooming and inappropriate relationships and the temptations of glamor, wealth and fame.
• The book includes a strong, principled protagonist, a strong female friendship and positive adult female characters in a very realistic portrayal of teens with all their confused feelings and insecurities.
• Despite the inappropriate kiss, the main character refuses to see herself as a victim, instead acknowledging that the blame should be put entirely on Plum’s adult father.
• Marthe Jocelyn is the award-winning author and illustrator of over fifty books for babies, kids and teens. Her illustrated books have been shortlisted for both the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. In 2009 she was the recipient of the prestigious Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work.
• Enhanced features (highly-readable font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers.