"Three French girls find joie de vivre en vélo and liberté, égalité, sororité in this fabulously funny tale of female friendship and empowerment."
Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2019
Suffused in the exuberance of a yellow-jersey-wearing cyclist freewheeling down the Champs-Élysées with a bottle of Champagne, this wildly witty novel tells of three fine young women who rise above body-shaming bullies to become Queens of the Mountain.
Likened to Jean-Paul Sartre - “squinty old man, atrociously ugly” – Mireille has been voted one of the ugliest girls in her school in the cruel “Pig Pageant” Facebook poll, but she’s not going to take this lying down. Rather, she seeks out the two other “Little Piglettes”, Astrid and Hakima, and they strike up sisterly bond.
Sometimes fate conspires in fortuitous ways and here the girls realise that key aspects of their lives will conflate at the president’s Élysée Palace party. Quite simply, the Three Little Piglettes must go to the ball and so they embark on a voyage à vélo to Paris, funding their trip by selling homemade saucisson. First covered by local news, their journey goes viral, which sees them enveloped in a peloton of national interest. What an inspired, amusing, enchanting ride this is.
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“Maybe this is what it feels like to be beautiful – I’ve always noticed that beautiful people attract all the smiles and all the Hey, you all rights. We don’t like to see beautiful people not being all right. Ugly people, though – of course they’re not all right, they’re ugly.”
Mireille, Astrid and Hakima have just been voted the three ugliest girls in school by their classmates on Facebook. But does that mean they're going to sit around crying about it?... Well, maybe a little, but not for long! Climbing onto their bikes, the friends set off on a summer roadtrip to Paris. The girls will find fame, friendship and happiness on their journey, and still have time to eat a mountain of food (and drink the odd glass of wine) along the way. But will they really be able to leave all their troubles behind?
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Piglettes and determined it is suitable for children aged 15-18 years old
Piglettes features in the following genres: Romance / Relationship Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for Young Adults, Recommendations
Piglettes is available in Paperback
Piglettes was written by Clementine Beauvais and published by Pushkin Children's Books
Piglettes has 287 pages
£8.99
