Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicholson by Louise Rennison

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Rennison, Louise. Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicholson. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Print. ISBN-13: 9780060288143. Hardcover. Cost: $15.95.

Awards:
-British Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award, 1999
-Printz Honor Book, 2001

Annotation:
Being 14 can be challenging. Georgia Nicholson is finding it perfectly impossible, and she wants to tell you why.

Booktalk:
Georgia Nicholson is 14, has a loving family, and a ferocious pet cat. So life should be great, right? Except the members of that loving family are all a bunch of “weirdos” and being 14 means having friends and boyfriends and a little sister who ruins everything:

Saturday, September 26^th 10 a.m.
Went for a moody autumn walk with Libby in her pushchair. She was singing, “I am the Queen, oh, I am the Queen.”… and that’s when he got out of a red mini. Robbie. The SG. He saw me and said, “Oh hello, we’ve met before, haven’t we?” … “I am the Queen,” and he said, “Are you?” (Ooohhh, he’s so lovely to children.) Then Libby said, “Yes, I am the Queen and Georgia did a big poo this morning.” I couldn’t believe it. He could not believe it. Nobody could believe it. It was unbelievable, that’s why. He stood up quickly and said, “Er, well, I’d better be going.”

When life throws you spots, and bad costumes, and awful amounts of homework, how can you overcome all of that horribleness? In a year of firsts, watch as Georgia finds out what matters most in her life, and what ends up becoming less important.