Secret Diary
Book 1
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Meet Lou! She's hardly your average 12 year old. Her handmade outfits are the talk of the school (even though they make the other girls laugh), and her homework gets a lot of attention from her teachers (even though it lands her in the shrink's office). Home sweet home is an apartment she shares with her couch-potato mom and a cat named Cat. At least she can pour her heart out to her best friend, Mina, and scribble her dreams in her secret diary.
Now that she's almost a teenager, Lou's life is becoming even more interesting. Playing with dolls has lost its appeal and the boy across the street gets cuter every day. The new neighbor, Richard, just might be the perfect match for Lou's mom. But will Lou or her mom ever pluck up their courage and actually talk to their crushes?
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The buildings in 12-year-old Lou's neighborhood may look a bit odd, but she's surrounded by realistic people and problems a mother who's more enthusiastic about gaming than finishing her SF novel, inept at cooking, and too shy to admit she's attracted to the guy who just moved into their building; a best friend who listens to Lou's rants, but tartly cuts them down; and a cute boy she longingly peeks at across the street, even when she notices him picking his nose. A casual, relaxed plot develops out of these characters. The action is sequential, though most pages are self-contained episodes. Design of the characters is manga-influenced big, flexible mouths and wild hair that looks like roughly cut construction paper, for example, but the painted art is done with a rich, glowing palette. Although nominally aimed at girls, it makes for enjoyable reading for both sexes and all ages. A sequel, Summertime Blues, is also available. Ages 9 14.
