TeenREAD: Miss Understanding

March 9th, 2010 · No Comments

Recommended by Childrens Books Ireland (14yrs+)

MISS UNDERSTANDING: MY YEAR IN AGONY by LARA FOX

Sixteen-year-old Anya has moved from a fee-paying school to a comprehensive after her parent’s acrimonious divorce. She starts an anonymous blog and becomes the school agony aunt. ‘She tells it like it is’: the problems and advice are at times sad, hilarious and quite explicit. The language is clever, the references to TV, music and so on refreshingly contemporary, loadsa celeb and brand name drops, txt msgs, etc. The plot takes an interesting swerve where blog and real life merge. An original, strong new voice in light teen fiction.