What Lexie Did is the third of Emma Shevah’s giggle-inducing stand-alone stories featuring authentic and diverse young voices. Following Dream On, Amber and Dara Palmer’s Major Drama – now optioned for TV by CBBC, Shevah once again champions families in all their shapes and sizes whilst effortlessly using humour to explore important themes for young readers.
What Lexie Did stars the brilliantly funny and smart young Lexie, who lives in London with her Greek Cypriot family. Readers follow Lexie as she learns some important lessons about truth and lies, loyalty and betrayal, as well as coping with the painful reality of her best friend’s heart condition.
Lexie lives in London with her colourful Greek Cypriot family – and she’s devoted to her fragile to her fragile cousin of the same age, Eleni, who has a heart condition. But after the death of their grandmother, Lexie tells a terrible, instinctive, jealous lie about an heirloom necklace, a lie that splits the family apart. It’s up to her to bring the family back together … but after such a lie, can she find a way to tell the truth?
Shevah has thoroughly researched the cultures she is representing in her book, allowing her young readers to learn about different backgrounds and experience someone else’s life through her vivacious characters. Her writing is critically acclaimed in the US as well as in the UK, where she has received an impressive six starred reviews and featured in the New York Times. To further celebrate publication, the first two books, Dream On, Amber and Dara Palmer’s Major Drama, have been reissued with new stand-out jackets featuring the quirky, colourful illustrations of Helen Crawford-White.
About the author
Emma Shevah is half Irish and half Thai. Her great-great-grandfather was King Rama I of Thailand, so by all rights she should be living a life of ease and luxury in the tropics. Instead, she spends her days dashing around Brighton writing, teaching English and raising four children. Connect with her on Twitter: @emmashevah
