Polly Price's Totally Secret Diary: Mum in Love

"I had been looking forward to going to France in the Easter holidays for weeks. Admittedly it meant going with Mum and her annoying, yuckily young, French boyfriend, Almond. But I knew we would be staying at Almond's parents' place: A CHATEAU! Everyone knows 'chat' means 'cat' in French -- so I couldn't wait ... 2 whole weeks in a houseful of cats! I love animals! "Tragically things NEVER work out as you expect. Instead of a houseful of cats it turned out to be a houseful of Almond's annoying, totally weird French family. Maybe if Piranha wasn't so evil, and Lucien (Almond's younger brother) wasn't so cool, things might have turned out differently -- but before I had time to squeak 'murder, ' I was on the ghastly trail of a heartless criminal. Could I, Polly Price, uncover the truth? Well -- not if I was the chief suspect. And not if I starved to death trying to find my way through long, murky corridors to breakfast. I knew I was in a race against time. And I didn't even have a watch."