Mates, Dates and Inflatable Bras: Bk. 1 - Brossura

Hopkins, Cathy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1853409278 ISBN 13: 9781853409271

Casa editrice: Piccadilly Press, 2007

Riassunto

Lucy is trying to cope with teenage life. She is being pressured from all angles - teachers, parents and even her friends. Everyone else seems so sure of what they want to do, but Lucy has no idea. Somehow she has to find the answers.

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Recensione:

The first in a new series for younger teenage girls, this story introduces us to Lucy, her best mates Izzie and Nesta and their world of music, fashion, astrology, mobile phones and boys. Lucy is feeling distinctly uneasy. At 14 it is time for her to start thinking about her future and when her teacher sets an assignment on who and what the class want to be she feels that she is the only one who doesn't know. To make matters worse, when Izzie reads the tarot cards for her they predict changes - exactly what Lucy doesn't want, especially now that Izzie seems to have a new best friend in the glamorous (and gorgeous) Nesta. When Izzie and Nesta start going out and leaving Lucy behind because she looks too young to get into the cinema, she is left feeling even more inferior and isolated. But thankfully she is made of strong stuff, and when she spies the boy of her dreams through the window of a bus circumstances take another turn and she gradually learns more about friendship, love and what she wants from life. This is a well-observed and at times hilarious account of what makes teenage girls tick. Cathy Hopkins can really empathise with adolescent fears and insecurities. Friendships and relationships are given serious consideration but with a light-hearted touch. Lucy's haircut from hell and her experiments with the inflatable bra of the title are extremely funny. The style of writing is bang up-to-date and the language modern and colloquial. --Kirkus UK

L'autore:

Cathy Hopkins lives in North London with her husband and three mad cats. As it took until she was 35 to decide what she wanted to do when she grew up (be a writer), she has had a varied career. She trained to teach in secondary schools but thought it was a better idea to join a rock and roll band instead and joined Driving Rock and the Rockettes as one of the Rockettes. She has also worked as an occupational therapist, a script writer, a newspaper reviewer on Sky news, a script reader for the comedy unit at the BBC and an aromatherapist.

The Mates, Dates series is Cathy’s first fiction writing (though she has had sixteen non-fiction titles published). Writing for teenagers is easily the most enjoyable work she has ever done as she says it gives her the chance to re-live being 14 and permission to do all sorts of things in the name of research - like reading all the great teenage fiction there is these days, watching T4 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and reading serious magazines like Bliss and Cosmo Girl. There are now 7 books in the Mates Dates, series which as well as being published in the UK have also been sold to 14 countries abroad including America. She has also done another series for Piccadilly called Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise.

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• Editore: Piccadilly Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1853409278
• ISBN 13: 9781853409271
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144