The Brilliant Ideas of Lily Green

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A dash of Judy Blume, a spoonful of secrets and a whole lot of fun get mixed up in thisbig-hearted debut by Ampersand Prize-winning author Lisa Siberry.Twelve-year-old Lily Greens life is falling apart. Her best friend, Violet, is more interested in the latest shade of lip gloss than hanging out. Her enemy, Zoe, is determined to beat Lily in the school science competition and win Violetsfriendship, too. Worst of all, Lily's precious family beauty salon the last connection she has to her dadhas hit hard times, and her mum has decided to sell it.

When Lily accidentally mixes up a string of wild and wonderful beauty products from the mysterious plants in her neighbours garden, she thinks shes found the perfect way to save the salon and get her best friend back. But are her inventions as beautiful as she thinks And when things start turning ugly can Lily find the real secret ingredient that will save the salon, seal her friendships, and win the school science competition
Beautifully written and full of warmth,this captivating middle-grade novelexplores family, friendship and the true meaning of beauty.

• Shortlisted for the 2020 ABDA Best Designed Children's Fiction and the2020 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year

Author Bio

Lisa Siberry is a freelance writer and content producer who spent many years working at the ABC. She lives in Sydney with her husband and two children. Her debut middle-grade novel,The Brilliant Ideas of Lily Green, won the 2017 Ampersand Prize, the premier award for debut authors in Australia and New Zealand. Like Lily Green, she made lots of things when she was a kid, including a very dreadful squashed-jasmine-flower perfume.