Darlene Oxenham

A Cyclone is Coming to Useless Loop. Annie has never been in a cyclone, but everyone else seems to know what to do. Will it be scary? Will it be boring? Annie finds out the cyclone is both - and more!

When Annie's dad promises her a beach sports car, she imagines a bright red hotrod with racing car stripes. All her school friends will be so jealous! But it will take a lot of work to turn Dad's battered old bomb into the car of Annie's dreams. Then again, hard work can sometimes make the rewards seem so much sweeter....