Central Park Showdown

By Sheila Agnew

With the arrival of her father from Australia, Evie's life is thrown into turmoil. Not only has she to contend with a new woman in Scott's life, but now she has to face the prospect of a custody battle between her uncle and her father. Evie really wants to stay with Scott and, in true Evie style, is determined to stand up for herself - by firing her lawyer!
Her father's lawyer is prepared to play dirty, and Evie is devastated when Scott is falsely accused of beating her. Can Evie's friends rally and convince her father to withdraw his application for custody?
'a great way for a 10+ year old to discover New York City' 'speckled with humour throughout … an incredibly moving story and a real page-turner' LoveReading4Kids.co.uk on Evie Brooks is Marooned in Manhattan

• Language: English
• Publisher: The O'Brien Press
• Release date: Sep 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781847177155

Sheila Agnew

Sheila Agnew was born in New York and grew up in Dublin with her sister and two brothers. They liked to pretend to be the children in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Although Sheila couldn’t quite make it to Narnia, she set out to experience what she could of this world. After graduating from UCD., she practiced as a lawyer in London, Sydney and New York and got to work in such far-flung places as Accra, Cairo and Bratislava. Sheila has wanted to be a writer since she was seven and fell in love with Danny, the Champion of the World. In 2002, she took time-out from her legal career to write and to travel around Asia. In 2011, she moved to Argentina to learn Spanish and work on a horse farm. The following year, she relocated to Dingle in County Kerry where she wrote Evie Brooks. Sheila based the character of ‘Ben’ on her own black-and-white spaniel of dubious lineage. Sheila now lives and writes in New York City. Visit www.sheila-agnew.com to read Sheila's blog and to find out more about the Evie Brooks series.

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