The All Electric Amusement Arcade

Punks, pop, pace and pathos; not great literature but hugely entertaining, this is a lively and genuinely funny story about youth as they dream and wish they could be and accepted on that level it becomes a book worth publishing. Fifteen year-old, dynamic, Bella, bullies, cajoles and schemes to acquire a faded amusement arcade and turn it into a dream-come-true location for teeny boppers, and in the process she escapes into her own dream world, away from pressing family difficulties and the truancy officer. She demonstrates through sheer determination and guile the life skills that schools do not teach but should, and the magnificent premise that 'There's a stage in your life when you think you can do anything'. Since it is based on a Thames T. V. series, with the right promotion, Bella could be as big as Tucker in the adolescent imagination.