Saartjie 6: Saartjie se slim plan | Children's Fiction

Bettie Naudé

Saartjie Baumann is a versatile young lady but coming up with ingenious plans is definitely one of her greatest gifts. When a new girl joins her class and the learners are divided into two groups, this talent of our heroine's is put to the utmost test. She and her opponent keep trying to outwit each other and at a party this leads to downright war. A chair collapses under Saartjie, the new girl lands up with cake in her face – and the fur is flying!

But in this book Saartjie also succumbs to vanity. She gets hold of her mother's make-up in an effort to charm a boy, but he gets such a fright when he sees her smeared face that things turn out completely different from what she had hoped for.