Ophelia Bottom longs for a boring life. Instead, she's stuck living in a rickety converted van and managing Bottom's Travelling Theatre, the moveable stage where her embarrassing actor parents put on occasionally disastrous plays. Every day, she wishes she lived in an ordinary house, with parents who worked ordinary, undramatic jobs. When the family gets stuck in the seaside town of Stopford, Ophelia's dream appears to be coming true: all the Stopford residents seem to have very normal lives. But someone is trying to drive the Bottoms out, and surrounding all the normality is a strange village motto: PLASTIC IS FANTASTIC. Can Ophelia discover what's really behind Stopford's perfect appearance - before she loses everything that makes the Bottom family life so special?
Mim grew up surrounded by secrets. On the day she was born, her mother died and a mysterious curse was cast on her family. Ever since, she's been isolated in a walled castle, forbidden from venturing to the Outside. But Mim has never been able to stop asking questions - and when her father enlists the suspicious Madame Marionette to train her in the art of being a princess, her curiosity only gets more intense.
Determined to understand, Mim sets out on an epic adventure in which she will break all the rules, encounter strange creatures and use all her cunning to solve impossible problems. But will it be enough to bring happiness back to the lonely castle on the rock?
Until she was 10, Flynn didn't even know her real name. Her adoptive parents have always kept her past a secret, but a mysterious message transforms her world and sets her on a path to discover who she really is. How did she get the burn that covers most of her face? And could she really have a twin Packed off to The Cruet Establishment for Lost and Wayward Children - a boarding school for misfits - Flynn tries to adjust to a world of intimidating teachers, unfair rules, and stomach-churning soup, but before long she begins to befriend her unusual classmates, including a feral boy who was raised by a lion. All the while, she receives more cryptic messages that slowly bring her closer to her true identity.
Bursting with magic, intrigue and humour, School for Nobodies is a delightful debut about the beauty of not fitting in.
