Emily’s Tiara Trouble

Talented 10-year-olds Emily, Bella, Chloe and Grace are sick of adults trying to turn them into helpless princesses. When math whiz Emily Martin's mother enters her in the local beauty pageant, it's the last straw—the four friends form the Anti-Princess Club, with the motto WE DON'T NEED RESCUING.

Samantha Turnbull is a multi-award winning journalist whose writing has been featured in publications including ABC online, the Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, Northern Star. Samantha decided to get into kids' fiction when she was browsing the book section of a well-known department store and couldn't find anything for her daughter that didn't feature a princess or a fairy. Samantha doesn't like stories about damsels in distress. She likes to read and write about girls who don't need rescuing. The Anti-Princess Club books are her debut novels.