SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE FOREST OF READING SILVER BIRCH AWARD"Brilliant, funny, unputdownable."- Alice Kuipers, award-winning children's authorFor fans of Remarkably Ruby and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, comedy and cringe come together in this sweet novel about facing your fears. It's nothing short of a catastrophe when someone secretly signs up Belinda Houle, the school's shyest kid, to audition for a play.
Belinda turns to Sally-her unflappable best friend and resident witch-for help. Belinda doesn't believe in magic, but if Sally says she has a spell for confidence...well, it couldn't hurt to try it. Could it?What follows the spell is a series of disasters so disastrous they would have been funny-if only they weren't happening to Belinda! From eating dog food, to losing her hair in a straightening mishap, to wrecking a mural and ending up with globs of paint on her head, things get worse and worse for Belinda until she must face the facts: One piece of bad luck can be explained away, but this? This is a straight-up curse!Can she break the curse before the dreamy Ricky Daniels takes notice of her crooked wig?More importantly, can Belinda battle the very thing she hoped the spell would take away: her embarrassment?