Ellyse is dying to start touch footy again--touchdowns are the best! But with homework piling up and training every night of the week, is it all getting too much to handle? It looks like Ellyse is going to have to make some MAJOR changes. There's also the drama at school with her best friends, Jazz and Charlie. One minute things are great, and the next their friendship is falling apart. Uh-oh! Maybe getting selected for the regional touch footy team will help take her mind off things . . . or maybe that's just wishful thinking. Can Ellyse find the courage to step up and face her problems head on?

Sherryl Clark's first children's book was The Too-Tight Tutu. Since then she has published almost 70 children's books, including Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!), Motormouth, and Runaways. Sherryl is also the author of the Rose books in the Our Australian Girl series and Jimmy's War in the Do You Dare series. She has had two collections of poetry for adults, Edge and Thicker Than Water. Sherryl teaches fiction and poetry writing in the Diploma of Arts--Professional Writing and Editing at Victoria University, and is currently undertaking a PhD.