by Louise Rennison
ages: 12+
First sentence: “Dad had Uncle Eddie round, so naturally they had to come and see what I was up to.”
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Sometimes, you get everything you want out of life. But most of the time — as 14 (well, almost 15)-year-old Georgia Nicholson is finding out — your little sister just leaves her dirty nappies in your bed. Georgia’s trying to wade in the murky waters of makeup (without sticking the mascara brush in her eye), first loves (she’s crushing hard on Robbie, whom she calls the Sex God), and learning how to kiss (oh… SO funny). And, while she mostly is okay, sometimes she’s well… not.

This book, as pointed out by my dear friend Corinne at The Book Nest, is drink-spittingly funny. Snort, chortle, guffaw, too. Sure, it’s not a deep book by any means (what book where the main character spends the entire book obsessing about a boy is?), and yeah, I did get annoyed with Georgia (c’mon girl, cut your parents a break!)… but between the Britishness of it all (oh, I need to use “nuddy-pants” in a conversation now!), as well as the sheer insanity of Georgia and her friends (she shaves off her eyebrows! Had me in stitches.), I couldn’t help but really, really like this book.

Double cool with knobs, definitely.