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Comedy/Humour

I lost my mobile at the mall

Author:  Wendy Harmer

I lost my mobile at the mall and am now facing certain death. My mother will accuse me of being lazy, ungrateful and plain old stupid. My father’s shoulders will sag, as if I deliberately lost my phone to prove that there is no god. My best friend will kill me because there is a photo in my phone of her standing next to Hugh jackman. I’m not an overly  dramatic person, but a year’s worth of numbers, texts and photos were in my phone. If i don’t get it back, my life is not worth living.

Withering Tights

Picture the scene: the very eccentric Dother Hall performing arts college in the wilds of the Yorkshire Dales, surrounded by bearded cheesemaking villagers (male and female) and wildlife of the squirrely-type.

On the whole, it′s not quite the showbiz experience Tallulah was expecting... but once her mates turn up and they start their ′FAME! I′m gonna liiiiive foreeeeeever, I′m gonna fill my tiiiiights′ summer course things are bound to perk up.

Especially when the boys arrive. (When DO the boys arrive?)

Startled By His Furry Shorts

Author:  Louise Rennison

The seventh book in the Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series.

Huge

Author:  Sasha Paley

April has been saving for over a year to go to Wellness Canyon, a luxury 'weight loss spa'. The instructor, Melanie, tells her that the importance of a friendship between roommates is huge, and April is just fine with that. Untill she meets Will.


 

Daizy star and the pink guitar

Author:  Cathy Cassidy

Daizy Star and the Pink Guitar

This book is about a 12 year old girl called Daizy Star her friends Beth, Willow and Murfey, her sisters Becca and Pixie, Becca’s boyfriend,  Spike and the yuckiest boy in their school, Ethan . She thought everything was going well on her Birthday. She had gotten the present of her dreams and she had a great time with her friends. Little does she know that her Father was just about to rouin it all. Will he make their family fall apart with his crazy ideas?

The 13-Storey Treehouse

Author:  Andy Griffiths

Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-storey treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making beds, vines you can swing on, a vegetable vaporiser and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots your favourite flavoured marshmallows into your mouth whenever it discerns you're hungry.

The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Author:  Sophie Kinsella

Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She's a journalist. She spends her working life telling others how to manage their money. She spends her leisure time...shopping. Retail therapy is the answer to all her problems. She knows she should stop, but she can't. She tries Cutting Back, she tries Making More Money. But neither seems to work. The stories she concocts become more and more fantastic as she tries to untangle her increasingly dire financial difficulties.

Della says: OMG!

Author:  Keris Stainton

"There's no message, just a photo. Or rather a scan. A scan of part of a page of my diary. I think for a minute I am going to be sick and then I feel like I'm being watched. I actually look around the room for a second, as if I'm expecting someone to jump out, laughing."

How can Dan fall for Della, when someone, somewhere, is revealing all her deepest secrets?

The Nanny Diaries

Author:  Nicola Kraus

Nan has a tricky relationship with her employer  Mrs X and a non-existent relationship with Mr X but she loves their little boy to peices.

In between looking after the four year old Grayer and running a thousand errands for Mrs X,his rich,upright Manhattanite mother, nan is trying to have a life. Theres collague, shopping her friends , her cat george. And the gourgeous Harvard boy fromthe sixth floor...

Love, Stargirl

Author:  Jerry Spinelli

LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl, The novel takes the form of the world's longest letter, in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. In her writing, Stargirl mixes memories of her bittersweet time in Mica, Arizona, with involvements with new people in her life.
In Love, Stargirl, we hear the voice of Stargirl herself as she reflects on time, life, Leo, and - of course - love.