Its own special post...

I had to give the following book its own post, as I believe it is the best book out for preteen and teenage girls, as well as a hilarious tale for women, too!

Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison (Printz Honor Book, 2001)

Before I even speak about this book, enjoy an excerpt:

Sunday August 23rd
my bedroom raining
10:00 am
Dad had Uncle Eddie round so naturally they had to come and nose around and see what I was up to. If Uncle Eddie (who is bald as a coot -- two coots, in fact) says to me one more time, "Should bald heads be buttered?" I may kill myself. He doesn't seem to realize that I no longer wear romper-suits. I feel like yelling at him, "I am fourteen years old, Uncle Eddie! I am bursting with womanhood, I wear a bra! OK, it's a bit on the loose side and does ride up round my neck I if run for the bus "but the womanly potential is there, you bald coot!"

Talking of breasts, I'm worried that I may end up like the rest of the women in my family, with just the one bust, like a sort of shelf affair. Mum can balance things on hers when her hands are full--at parties, and so on, she can have a sandwich and drink and save a snack for later by putting it on her shelf. It's very unattractive. I would like a proper amount of breastiness but not go too far with it, like Melanie Andrews, for instance. I got the most awful shock in the showers after hockey last term. Her bra looks like two shopping bags. I suspect she is a bit unbalanced hormonally. She certainly is when she tries to run for the ball. I thought she'd run right through the fence with the momentum of her bosoomers' as Jas so amusingly calls them.

Let me tell you, this is the funniest thing I've read in years. The diary of Georgia, a 14-year-old prep school student, in all her awkwardness is at the top of my list. When I first read this, I lived in an apartment building, and I laughed so hard and loud, my neighbors probably thought I was crazy. This is for anyone who had anything other than a perfect adolescence. Georgia and her friends are goofy, ridiculous, and predestined to embarrass themselves as they try to pretend they are they height of sophistication. Hilarious. The six following books in this series are just as good as the first, but please read them in order so as not to spoil anything.