54) Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicholson

Bibliography: Rennison, Louise; Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicholson; Harper Tempest; London; 1999; 234 pages; ISBN 978-0-064-47227-2.

Plot: Georgia Nicolson has fourteen days left before summer holiday ends.  She has to figure out how she is going to wear “natural” looking makeup, fix her unibrow, correct her reputation from a costume party, and help her best friend get the boy of her dreams.  She ends up shaving off her eyebrows right before school starts and wonders if she will have to spend the term locked in her house for eternity.  Right before school starts her brows return and Georgia meets Robbie at a greengrocer.  However, Robbie has a girlfriend and Georgia begins her exploration in having a boyfriend through a couple of boys that only want to “snog.”  The book is told through Georgia’s journal entries, and readers will be laughing at the crazy predicaments that she finds herself in and her crazy family.

Review:  Georgia Nicolson is hilarious and the book reads like a young adult Bridget Jones.  Georgia’s family is enough to drive any tween or teen girl crazy.  Her Uncle and father think they are hilarious and try to include Georgia in their crazy ideas.  Her mother is trying very hard to keep her youth; however, she is only an embarrassment.  Georgia’s cat Angus is part wild and is constantly terrorizing the neighbor’s yappy dog.  Then there is Georgia’s baby sister Libby that is super cute but also a complete handful. 

Just like any other fourteen year old girl, Georgia finds her first crush in Robbie.  Unfortunately, Robbie is older and in a relationship.  Georgia refers to Robbie’s girlfriend as a “wet wally.”  Some of the British terms will stop readers, but thankfully there is a dictionary included.  A “wet wally” is defined as a drippy, useless, nerdy idiot that has no clothes sense.  In order to get over Robbie, Georgia starts seeing Peter, who only wants to make out with Georgia.  After Peter, Georgia starts seeing Mark who is another boy interested in nothing more than kissing.  Just when Georgia realizes that boys aren’t all that they are cracked up to be, she starts having to deal with friend trouble. 

Readers will love this book and luckily the first novel ends quite abruptly, making readers anxious to see what happens next. 

Genre: Humor/Coming of Age

Interest Level: age 12 and up

Related Books: Truth or Diary by Catherine Clark; The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot; Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Sheldon.

Awards:

Printz Honor Book for 2001

Nestle’ Smarties Book Prize

Series Information: This is the first book in a ten book series about Georgia Nicolson.

Author Information: http://www.georgianicolson.com/meet.html