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Abstract: Romance is what happens when you're busy doing something else 30% Drama, 30% Angst, 40% Love/Hate Beatrice has got a deadbeat mum, an addiction to online messaging and an aversion to the sun. If she could stay inside all summer she most absolutely would. Except she's being shipped off to stay with her 'Grummer' - a grandmother she barely knows - while her mum has another go at rehab. If Beatrice is going to have any chance of having some peace she will need to distract Grummer with a husband. Unfortunately there aren't many eligible bachelors hanging around this cranky old dorp. Her plan is simple: identify the target, establish contact and ensure eternal love. But all does not go to plan for control-freak Beat. Suddenly she finds herself ditching the factor 50 for freckles from swimming in the reservoir; her cucumber and tea-only diet is overtaken by peanut butter sandwiches, and the very important 'rely on no-one' policy has to make room for Toffie; a boy with a bike, a shock of red hair and a love for the natural fauna of South Africa. Beat always knew that love was found in unexpected places. She just never thought that it might find her.

Abstract: April-May is back, and this time she's brought friends! April-May is back for another year at Trinity College, and she still hasn't changed her socks. Sebastian, aka Edward, aka the boy with the lime-green eyes, is still drop-dead gorgeous and totally bad news. But then Fatty turns up. A giant of a boy who eats stew sandwiches and cries when no one's looking. And he's best friends with Sebastian. Awkward. Juggling the evil teacher Mrs. Ho as her new live-in mom, along with a new brother (the devious Sam Ho), and a house with half a roof, April-May's life is as much of a mess as the crummy extension Fluffy is building out back. Before she knows it, April-May is in an all-night dance-off and she's adopted a dog called Alistair. The less said about him the better. No wonder April-May's in counseling. It's a shame that she's the one giving all the guidance. 100 Days of April-May is the hilarious one-eyebrow-raised sequel to A Month with April-May as she finds love, loses a dog, and wins the World Cup.

Abstract: Move over Georgia Nicolson, April-May has just enrolled. "Life is not a bowl of cherries. Suck it up." April-May loves boys with green eyes, reading at the back of class, and wearing non-regulation socks. April-May hates stuck up rich kids and two-minute noodles. Life at her new school would have been fine if Mrs. Ho, the English teacher, hadn't decided that April May was a no-good, trouble-maker, bursary-kid. April-May decides that Mrs. Ho has to go. Then April-May meets the drop-dead gorgeous Sebastian, befriends the total suck up mouth-breather Melly, and things get a little more complicated. A Month with April-May is a one-eyebrow-raised account of a teenager's trials and tribulations as she navigates a new school, a new family situation, and a whole new way of life.