Influence and responsibility
Gemma uses her horoscope-writing role and fictional forecasts to try to help friends’ romantic dreams come true.
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Melody James - Author
A school-set story about ambition, friendship and matchmaking, with Gemma using invented horoscopes to influence romantic hopes. Its central tension is between helping friends and recognising what may be happening in her own life.
For as long as thirteen-year-old Gemma Stone can remember she has dreamed of becoming an award-winning journalist. Unfortunately, as the youngest member of the Green Park High student e-zine editorial team, she's given the job of writing the horoscopes, under the pen name 'Jessica Jupiter'. Not knowing the first thing about astrology, Gemma decides to make the most of her unexpected situation by using her new position to play Cupid with her friends, writing fictional forecasts to help their romantic dreams come true. But is Gemma too busy with her friends' love lives to notice signs of love closer to home? -- publisher.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA school-set story about ambition, friendship and matchmaking, with Gemma using invented horoscopes to influence romantic hopes. Its central tension is between helping friends and recognising what may be happening in her own life.
Gemma uses her horoscope-writing role and fictional forecasts to try to help friends’ romantic dreams come true.
Gemma dreams of becoming an award-winning journalist but is assigned horoscopes and writes under the name “Jessica Jupiter”.
Talk about whether Gemma’s fictional forecasts are harmless fun or could affect her friends’ choices, and how her wish to become a journalist might shape her decisions.
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