A hilarious catastrophe where good and bad manners clash and one girl is caught in the middle!

Nothing exciting ever happened to Izzy. Until the day it did.

When a flyer for a competition flutters from a polka–dot balloon, surfs high and low on the breeze and glides through her bedroom window, Izzy knows it’s a sign from above.

She is going to enter and win the competition to find The Most Ungrateful Girl in the World.

There’s only one problem, and that’s good because there could have been 1001 problems but, unfortunately, it’s the biggest problem of them all: Izzy is The Most Grateful Girl in the World.

With her best friend Katie at her side, the rudest man in the world giving her lessons in ungratefulness, and the mysterious Molly Bloom revealing some very exciting secrets that could change everything, can Izzy overcome the odds to win this very odd competition – and, in doing so, save the world?

 

Petra James is the author of several middle-grade novels, such as the Arkie Sparkle series (published by Pan Macmillan Australia) and Hapless Hero Henrie (published by Walker Australia). Originally from a small town in New Zealand, she spent three years in the United Kingdom before moving to Australia, where she has worked in publishing ever since. Unlike the Ungrateful Girls in this story, she is very polite and well mannered.

Anna Zobel is an illustrator, writer and teacher from Melbourne, Australia. As a child Anna wrote and illustrated her own books, and she hasn’t stopped since. Anna is frequently inspired – and frequently infected – by the amazing children she works with, and hopes to represent them in her work.