Vote For Effie

By Laura Wood,

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Book description

Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2020.

Join Effie Kostas as she fights to become Student Council
President in her new school.
With a campaign team of loveable misfits, she tackles the truly important subjects:



gender imbalance,

outdated school conventions...

and good-looking boys stealing the last slice of chocolate…

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1 author picked Vote For Effie as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

There is something about Effie that truly captures what it is to be a person who cares. In a world in which young people are often told that not caring is the mark of coolness, Effie stands out as an optimist hell-bent to create a better world for all. In this wonderful book, we follow Effie’s adventures as she finds herself in a new school trying to make real meaningful change for her and all of her new friends, in a wonderfully entertaining and heartwarming story that had me in tears a few times and rooting for Effie from…

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