Sue Townsend SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 3/4

A really entertaining and funny book! Recommendable for readers of every age! Set in the year 1981 young Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4 years, writes about his everyday life: his imperfect parents, his struggle with puberty (especially the evil spots!) and first love, his literacy ambitions and what a hardship it is to be an intellectual in today's society! It shows the difficulties a young boy ...

Adrian Mole is a 13-and-something-years old teenager considering himself to be a great intellectual and an extremely talented writer. Well - he´s not. Actually, he´s a pain in the ass. He keeps on sending his poems to the BBC, complaining about everything and everyone - except the love of his life, his classmate Pandora. Nice and sometimes funny, but mostly making you really glad you´re out ...

Adrian hat ganz schön was am Hals. Zuerst stellt sich mit Akne Juvenis endlich die Pubertät bei ihm ein, dann trennen sich seine infantilen Eltern und letztendlich will einfach nichts in seinem Leben rund laufen. Dennoch kein Grund zum Heulen - zumindest nicht für den Leser. Augenzwinkernd erinnert man sich vielleicht sogar an seine eigenen Chaosjahre zurück und ist froh, dass diese endlich ...