Author: Andrew Davies

Illustrated: Linda Birch

Published: 1996

Publisher: Puffin Penguin

Format: Paperback

Pages: 115

Suitable: Middle Primary / Upper primary

Marmalade Atkins is the worst girl in the world. Expelled from every school in the land, she is sent to Hard Tack Hall, where after a morning of hard sums, boys play football and girls do embroidery. Marmalade is not having that, and her sporting career soon takes off.