The Girl with a Twirl - M J Moon

Twisted and witty with a sprinkling of romance, the screechingly humorous new fable from M J Moon. Meet dance mad Mabel Storm, the girl who no boy would ever dance with in a million years - no make that a zillion years! Mabel has serious boy problems. The problem is she has no boy to dance with and the Search for a Star dance competition is fast approaching. Mabel sets out on a mission to win. But trouble strikes when her hapless parents and owners of Twinkle Toes dance school park her off to crochet obsessed Aunt Mathilda's place at half-term. Mabels chances of finding a boy sink to minus zero...or do they? Mabels luck is about to change... It turns out that theres more to batty aunt Mathilda than meets the eye when she gives Mabel a pair of the rarest dance shoes on earth. Things get weirder when a mysterious dancer known only as the Silver Shadow arrives on the scene. Suddenly, Mabel is transformed from dancing disaster into a dancing diva as the pair wow audiences and judges with their slick moves. But who is the Silver Shadow and why is he so desperate to dance with Mabel...? Together, Mabel and the Silver Shadow win the Search for a Star regional finals and unwittingly win the attention of Mabels long-time crush and dancing heart-throb, Tino Ravioli, the countrys Latin dancing champion. When her dream comes true and he asks her to dance, Mabel runs off the dancefloor leaving one of her precious shoes behind. An unexpected chance of romance arrives in true Cinderella style when Tino orders a search of dance schools across the land in order to find his mystery girl. Mabel has a dilemma: Does she dance with the secretive Silver Shadow and win the prestigious Search for a Star dancing competition or does she accept Tinos offer to be his partner and become the envy of every girl in the country? Find out what happens to dancing disaster area Mabel Storm - the girl with the twirl!"