Karen McCombie

Stuck indoors? Run out of pocket money? Only the pets to play with? Find yourself in a fun-free zone? Banish boredom with Indie's most excellent guide. Faced with a boring holiday looming ahead of her, Indie comes up with a whole load of mad, brilliant and wacky ways to have fun. And she's written them all down!

Indie decides to try to get her separated parents to be friends, and comes up with some endearingly dopey, hairbrained schemes. But when Mum and Dad eventually do get matey, it's because they're trying to figure out what on earth is up with their very strangely behaved daughter!

Indie's seen a wooden cat that she just has to have, even if her friends think it's weird. The only problem is, it's really expensive. With her parents in a cash crisis, Indie will have to raise the money herself. Will her moneymaking schemes go to plan?

Dixie's landed a dream work experience placement at Candy magazine. But rather than interviewing celebs and mingling with models, Dixie spends all her time making tea! And then the problem page editor makes her read all the letters from readers. Worse still, Dixie finds a letter from her own sister. What will she do?