Eleven-year-old Mary Ella, ashamed that her older brother Morton is a slow learner and longing for a friend of her own, is astonished when the flamboyant new girl on the block picks Morton for a friend.
- ISBN10 0006728871
- ISBN13 9780006728870
- Publish Date 13 July 1989 (first published 1 January 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 August 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Lions
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English