Rennison, Louise. Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging.
What is it like to be a fourteen-year-old British girl? Read along in Georgia Nicolson’s diary to find out the importance of Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging.
At fourteen you find out how embarrassing your family is and how confusing it is to be a teenage girl. Georgia Nicolson confesses all of her thoughts in her diary. From page 3:
“There are six things very wrong with my life:
(1) I have one of those under-the-skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk in a red way for the next
two years.
(2) It is on my nose.
(3) I have a three-year-old sister who may have peed somewhere in my room.
(4) In fourteen days the summer hols will be over and then it will be back to Stalag 14 and Oberfuhrer Fray Simpson and her bunch of sadistic “teachers”.
(5) I am very ugly and need to go into an ugly home.
(6) I went to a party dressed as a stuffed olive.”
Georgia’s world is surrounded by and interesting cast of characters including: her parents, Uncle Eddie, her younger sister Libby, her best friend Jas, her school friends Ellen & Julia, her cat (a combination of domestic tabby and half Scottish wildcat), Mr. & Mrs. Next Door (that hate her cat) and the school bullies Alison Peters and Jackie Mathews. Don’t forget the guys that spice things up: Cousin James, Tom and Robbie Jennings, Peter Dyer (the professional kisser), Sven, Mark (bonfire boy). Enjoy the adventures that Georgia and her friends at the Latimer and
Grade 7-9
This book is like a teenage version of Bridget Jones’ Diary. The author provides a helpful glossary in the back of the book to explain British expressions to her, “American-type chums”.
2001 NYPL Books for the Teen Age
2000 Booklist Books for Youth Editor's Choice & Top 10 Youth First Novels
2001 Michael L. Printz Honor Book
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