Pond magic by Angela Sunde
Puffin, 2010. ISBN 978 014330525.
(Ages 10-12) Recommended. Another in the highly successful series,
Aussie Chomps, this very funny story has poor Lily watching
herself
turn into a frog. At first she notices her skin is going green, then
she embarrasses herself highly in the school bus with the most enormous
burps, when changing for swimming, she suddenly notices the webbing
between her feet, and to top it all off, she wins the race easily,
using the fastest breaststroke anyone has ever seen. Combine all this
with eruption on her face and a proclivity for flies, Lily's life is a
mess.
Her mother, Mrs Padd, surprises her with a French exchange student,
coming to stay and Lily is determined not to like him. But he speaks
French. So when Mrs Swan next door confesses that is it her doing that
is causing these momentous changes, Lily finds something on the web in
French, needing his discretion to translate it and so get her life back
to some sort of normalcy.
A great read with lots of puns and jokes around frogs and green things.
Fran Knight