Olive of Groves — Katrina Nannestad

Little girls who adore a boarding school romp, who love humorous, snappy, sharp heroines, have a penchant for scrapes or who have ever dreamt of running off to join the circus will fall in love with Olive of Groves. Ages: 8+ Olive lives with her beloved grandparents on a small, isolated community. Her grandparents have scrimped and saved to send her to boarding school where she can meet kids her own age. It's not exactly what Olive expected, in fact, Mrs Groves' Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers isn't what anybody really expected! Faced with disappointing her grandparents, Olive, who is not a boy, nor a talking animal, pretends to be an acrobat so that she can stay on. Now she has a month to learn how to leap, somersault and overcome her fear of heights. With exploding lamingtons, a vicious school bully, talking animals and new faces, Can Olive leap over these obstacles, become an actual acrobat and find a place to fit in?