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Bisto Book of the Year Award 1997

Children's fiction

Book Details: Price: €7.95 Binding: pb Pages: 224 Size: 196x130 mm ISBN-10 0-86278-495-6 ISBN-13 978-0-86278-495-9

Rights held: World, all languages. Rights sold: Chinese * Finnish * French * German * Hungarian * Italian * Latvian * Lithuanian * Portuguese * Russian * Slovene * Spanish

But, if Cindy dislikes her prospective stepsisters, they think she is an absolute horror - spoiled, arrogant and atrociously rude to them and their mother when they visit her house. Whatever about their mother marrying again, they can't imagine being landed with Cindy as a sister ... no way!

But the parents are going to marry, and the girls are going to be family, like it or not. So who gives in? Is there any room for compromise? Will the unlikely trio of stepsisters ever change their minds about each other?

TWO GREAT BOOKS IN ONE

In a unique feature the girls' stories are told in two separate back-to-back books, one for Cindy and the other for Ashling and Alva. The reader can choose which story to begin with, getting a very different viewpoint on the girls depending on whose side of the story they read first.

Cover of Ashling's diary:

Extracts available: read some of this book now ...
Cindy's Diary: Wednesday 2nd April
Ashling's Diary: Wednesday 2nd April

The Author Speaks
Writing Sisters ... no way!
About Call of the Whales: Researching Call of the Whales

Links
Siobhán's personal website
Wikipedia page for Siobhán

Teaching Resources: free to view and download
Teaching guide for Sisters ... No Way! from O'Brien Teaching Guides for Second Level Schools.
A study unit written by Pam Orford for Ireland in Schools and the Key Stage 3 National Strategy is available on the Staffordshire Learning Net

List of all available resources

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Cover Gallery: other covers for this book

Finnish (hb) edition cover	French edition	German hardback edition cover (Ashling's diary)
German hardback edition cover (Cindy's diary)	German paperback edition (Ashling's diary)	German paperback edition (Cindy's diary)
Italian edition -- Ashling's diary	Italian edition -- Cindy's diary	Lithuanian hardback cover -- Ashling's diary
Lithuanian hardback cover -- Cindy's diary	Original O'Brien Press cover: Ashling's story	Original O'Brien Press cover: Cindy's story
Portuguese edition	Russian edition (hardback) cover	Slovenian cover (Ashling's diary)
Slovenian cover (Cindy's diary)

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