Vinnie's life is a mess.

He's being blackmailed into taking a girl he hates on a date, he's getting bullied out of his sandwiches at lunchtime and his mother has chickenpox, so there's no clean clothes, no clean house and no decent food.

Read Chickenpox ... Yuck! to find out how Vinnie deals with his dilemmas. His methods may be gross, but they might just work!

Well-known in her primary school years for her own sandwich dilemmas, Josie Montano is now a full-time writer. She has won several short story competitions and is author of the hilarious Wogaluccis. She lives in Brisbane with her family.