Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging

Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging
by Louise Rennison
Published by HarperCollins (1999)
247 pages; ages 15+

Synopsis: Georgia Nicolson is a fourteen-year-old living in England with her parents, her three-year-old sister Libby, and her half domestic tabby/half Scottish wildcat Angus. Georgia meets Robbie and deems him the Sex God, and spends most of her time talking with her friends on the phone about their boy woes. She is stews over her nose that looks like "a third cheek" and wonders if boys are ever going to notice her or if she should just become a lesbian. Told as a kind of stream of consciousness, this hilarious novel details the teenage life full of family tension, peer pressure, friend woes, and boy drama.

Genre: New Realism/Problems; Friends and Society

Warning: Sexual content

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