Phoebe is 13, a Christian, and she is overweight.  She has a great sense of humour and her escapades are full of jokes and fun.  As Phoebe tells her story, she tries to figure out who is poisoning the cats, what's that creepy bird woman up to, why is the perfect girl at church so mean at school, is it OK to be embarrassed about being a Christian, and most important of all, "how on earth can I get boys to like me??"  Phoebe discovers it's no good pretending to God, he sees both the beauty and the bad inside you. 

Body image is a massive issue in our culture causing problems for thousands of young girls.  This new Phoebe series does not offer solutions, but portrays an overweight Christian girl in a positive light telling of her struggles and discoveries in life.
Phoebe is a slightly overweight teenager, and also has to deal with all the problems that teenagers face.

However, she also enjoys her faith in God, and is challenged almost daily about whether she is practising what she preaches. When Phoebe takes revenge on a girl she doesn’t particularly like, it has huge consequences for her. God clearly speaks to her and Phoebe has to make things right.

She writes, ‘It was tougher than a 20 mile run, scarier than a leap off the top diving board. It was the hardest thing I’d ever done – simply walking up that path and ringing the bell.’

Told from Phoebe’s point of view, this is a frank and funny look at being a Christian teenager in Britain today.

Baptist Times, 20 Nov 2003

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ISBN: 9781859996782
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: Scripture Union - published 06/06/2003
Format: B format paperback 128 pages