Puddle's Wondrous Worry Dolls — Andrea Kaczmarek

Jemima - Puddle to her friends - helps out in her Mum's shop and discovers Worry Dolls, pretty paper dolls in bright cotton pouches.

Puddle has never heard of Worry Dolls and her Mum explains that they make your worries fly away. While they are talking, a box of Worry Dolls spookily falls off the table and Puddle scrabbles around picking them all up â€" when Puddle gets home she finds that one of those bags had fallen into her pocket. But these Worry Dolls are nothing like the shop ones â€"these are very very different - cool funky Worry dolls in a rainbow pouch. Puddle is pretty puzzled, did her Mum slip them into her pocket? But she gives them a worry to solve just for fun â€" what happens next makes Puddle even more puzzled.

Puddle and her best friend Ally have plenty of problems at school -with three bullies who make everyone's life a misery. Like all bullies they pick on the younger kids who can't stand up for themselves. Their unkind names are a pain, but one day they go too far, so Puddle and Ally decide that it is time to teach them a lesson â€" together with her wondrous new friends - those Funky Worry Dolls, Puddle and Ally come up with some wonderful, but naughty, ideas.

Not only the school bullies get a taste of their own medicine â€" other crazy things happen,

Puddle and Ally save some bedraggled kittens. Puddle succeeds in a maths test, now that is a miracle! Puddle's project group is a big success…..why not read it and find out?

Cool and just a bit creepy â€" those Wondrous Worry Dolls fell into Puddle's life and shake things up!