The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley : (who planned to live an unusual life)

Cedar B. Hartley is already pretty unusual. She has red hair, she is very good at balancing and she has a dog called Stinky.

She doesn't hang out with the in-crowd, she'd prefer to be in the park practising acrobatics.

Then she meets a boy called Kite with a voice like a river, whose mother is a circus trainer and her life really starts to get interesting.

She discovers that looking at the world upside down is a useful way to see her missing brother, her hard-working mother and her less-than-perfect father in a completely new way.

A startling and original novel from a fresh new voice in children's fiction.