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How To Get What You Want by Peony Pinker - cover

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How To Get What You Want by Peony Pinker

Jenn Alexander

Publisher: A&C Black Childrens & Educational

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Summary

Everyone in Peony Pinker's family wants something. Her dad, 
a sports reporter on the local paper, wants to get out of doing the problem 
page while the agony aunt is missing; her mum wants to stop working at the 
garden centre where all the plants keep dying; and her big sister 
Primrose wants to be called Annabel. What Peony wants most in the world - even 
more than she wants a dog - is to stop Primrose's nasty new best friend Bianca 
from being horrible to her. When Mr Kaminski next door 
tells them the secret of how to get what you want, Peony decides it's time to 
put a stop to Bianca at last. But can she get what she really wants?
Available since: 02/14/2014.
Print length: 144 pages.

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