Angela Nicely: Queen Bee!

Angela Nicely: Queen Bee! is a book.

Matchmaker!
On a school day, Miss Darling is in an unusually snappy mood and has a runny nose and red eyes. Angela notices a magazine in Miss Darling's bag titled Have You Been Dumped? and believes that Miss Darling is snappy due to having been dumped. Angela, believing herself to be an expert on boyfriend trouble due to having "split up" with Bertie many times, calls a meeting of the GOBS (Girls Only, Boys Smell) club and tells Maisie and Laura that Miss Darling's boyfriend dumped her. She then decides to find Miss Darling a new boyfriend with the help of her best friends, so they consider possible boyfriends. Angela thinks of Bertie, but she's too young and is already Angela's crush, then she thinks of Mr Grouch, but all three girls reject the idea of Miss Darling hooking up with him, since he's both elderly and too grumpy. Angela then thinks of Mr Weakly, and Maisie thinks he's too shy, so Angela decides to give him tips.

At lunchtime, Angela, in the company of Maisie and Laura, writes a love poem to Miss Darling and another to Mr. Weakly, both asking the other to meet them in the staff room at four. After a brief argument over who should deliver the letters, Angela decides on her and Maisie delivering Mr. Weakly's since "he's going to need her help anyway", and Laura, as the smallest and least likely to be seen, delivering Miss Darling's.

Laura spots Miss Darling talking to Miss Boot on a bench, and pulls the hood of her hoodie over her face so she won't be recognised. However, she crashes, and the teachers spot her. Laura delivers the letter while pretending to tie her shoe, and leaves. Meanwhile, Angela and Maisie enter Mr. Weakly's class and ask if he has a girlfriend. He responds in the negative, so the girls claim he would find love more easily if he wore more trendy clothes. Then, they have him take off his glasses and Angela uses glue to make his hair stick up. They deliver the letter and leave, and he reads the letter and is excited to have a secret admirer. Miss Boot picks up the other letter and believes it's for her.

The GOBS club hides in the cloakroom when the bell rings, then they go to the staff room at ten to four and Angela looks through the keyhole. The girls hide as Mr. Weakly enters, to find Miss Boot already there. Then, the teachers argue over whether the other wrote the letter. The girls, meanwhile, can't make out what the teachers are saying, only that they're arguing (which Angela takes as a sign of love). Miss Darling shows up and yells Angela's name, then she tells Miss Boot that she found the three girls listening in. Miss Boot accuses Angela of writing the letters and she accidentally lets slip that she intended one of them for Miss Darling. She explains that she was trying to find a new boyfriend for Miss Darling after apparently having seen her crying, but Miss Darling reveals that she hadn't been crying and her eyes were only red due to hay fever. Then, Miss Boot gives Angela lines.

The Big Bike Ride!
Angela bounces downstairs on Saturday and hugs Mr Nicely, anticipating pocket money. Angela is excited to be "rich" and wants to immediately spend her money on sweets with her friends, but Mrs Nicely thinks it would be more "sensible" for Angela to save it and that "sweets are bad for your teeth". Later, Laura and Maisie come over and the three head off to the sweet shop. Angela, wanting to make some more money so that she can buy sweets, offers to colour Laura's hair for money, but she refuses. Angela then sees a sign advertising a bike ride the next day, and then decides to make money by selling lemonade to the cyclists (getting the idea because "cycling makes you thirsty"). Laura and Maisie aren't so sure, with Maisie pointing out that they don't have lemonade, so Angela decides to make some with the others.

The girls try to make lemonade in the Nicelys' kitchen, but they don't know how to make it fizzy, believing the fizz comes from an ingredient called 'ade'. Angela uses a rolling pin to crush some lemons, then adds some of Mrs. Nicely's expensive soda water (which she isn't allowed to drink, but she reasons that this is fine since she isn't going to be the one drinking it). Angela then stirs it (spilling a lot of it) and tastes it, but it's not sweet enough, so she pours in a bag of sugar (spilling half of it) and tastes it, achieving the perfect taste. She messily pours a bottle of the lemonade and tries shaking it up to make it fizzy, but the cap pops off and lemonade flies everywhere. She yells, "ARGHH! MAKE IT STOP!", which Mrs. Nicely overhears, so she enters and gets shocked and angry at the sight of the mess. Angela explains about her plan to sell lemonade, and Maisie convinces Mrs. Nicely to let them do it by claiming they're giving it to "poor people" (reasoning that she's not technically lying as Angela is "poor").

The next morning, Mrs Nicely helps the girls set up their lemonade stand and Angela makes a sign, selling it for 50p. Mrs. Nicely goes back inside, and Angela puts herself in charge of the money, Maisie puts herself in charge of pouring the lemonade, and then Angela puts Laura in charge of attracting customers. However, the cyclists pass the stand without stopping, and Laura doesn't know how to make them stop. Spotting a sign with a bike and an arrow, Angela decides to change it so that it points towards the sign.

Angela, despite her friends' doubts, moves the sign, and this manages to attract customers, but it also causes the cyclists to crash. This causes a steward and Mr. Nicely to look angrily at Angela, and Mrs. nicely sorts out the crash, but she takes away the profits, intending to donate them to charity.

The Ugly Sisters!
Angela and Laura are walking to school, but when they reach an alley, they run into two bullies from their class: twins named Eileen and Myleen Payne. Laura is scared, but Angela refuses to back away, and they approach the twins. The twins don't let Angela and Laura through unless they pay, claiming to own the alley. Angela has no money, so Myleen swipes Angela's lunchbox and steals her crisps and chocolate bar. Then, they replace the fillings in one of her sandwiches with mud and give it to her, but to spite them, she takes a bite out of it and pretends to enjoy it. The twins leave and Angela spits out the mouthful of mud sandwich.

On the playground, Laura tells Maisie about the mud sandwich. When Angela reveals she swallowed a little bit, Maisie fears that she will get sick or die, but Angela thinks she will be fine, figuring Bertie has also eaten mud. She then worries that the twins will return the next day, so Maisie suggests having Miss Darling tell them off. However, the Payne twins are used to being told off, so Angela shakes her head. Laura suggests walking a different way, but Angela doesn't want to be forced away by the bullies, so she decides they'd have to stand up to the twins or run away.

The next morning, Angela wakes up nauseated from the mud she swallowed, but she heads off for school anyway. She and Laura see the twins in the alley and start running, but Myleen steals Angela's school bag. She and Eileen drink Angela's orange soda and replace it with dirty water from a puddle. When Angela refuses to drink it, they call her chicken, so she tries to drink it, only to immediately spit it out. This makes Angela angry and she wants to get revenge on them.

The next day, Angela rings the doorbell next door and asks Mrs. Burns if Suzy is available, which she is, and she approaches. Angela and Laura offer to carry Suzy's bag, and she accepts. Angela and Laura then set off with Suzy's bag and approach the alley, where the Payne twins again demand a payment. They steal Suzy's lunch box and start eating her food, but then Suzy arrives and yells at them. She asks Angela and Laura if the twins have been bothering them, and Angela and Laura explain the twins' misdeeds. Suzy glares at the twins and asks them to eat worms, at which point they run away.

Trivia

 * "Matchmaker!" reveals that Mr. Weakly is the only male teacher in the school and doesn't have a girlfriend, and that Miss Darling gets hay fever and has blue eyes.
 * Mr. Weakly is revealed to be almost blind without his glasses, but it's unknown if he's nearsighted (when objects look normal close up) or has astigmatism (when everything looks blurry, regardless of distance).
 * "The Big Bike Ride!" reveals that Angela gets her pocket money on Saturdays, and that Mrs. Nicely keeps her own fizzy water, which Angela isn't allowed to drink because it's expensive.
 * "The Ugly Sisters!" reveals that Angela dislikes the school's rice pudding and that the Payne twins are slow runners.
 * Suzy is revealed to be "almost in the top year". Since the eldest age for primary/elementary school is eleven, this likely puts Suzy's age at ten.