Kids and Teen Blog
Indigo’s Junior Advisors
by monique t
Fiction / January 24, 2006
Indigo's Junior Advisors board has picked Sue Limb's novel Girl (nearly) 16: Absolute Torture as one of this year's picks.
For the full list visit Indigo.ca
Sue Limb (Gloucestershire, U.K.) is the author of screen plays, radio programs and fiction for adults and children. Her children�s books include China Lee and Come Back Grandma, which was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize.
Girl (nearly) 16 is for those teens who know that life can be absolute torture. For main character Jess, her life has just hit the skids. Her mom has arranged a trip to see Jess� dad. Great concept, bad timing, for Jess has just got together with Fred and in an incredibly romantic way he has scraped together the money to get them each a ticket to a hot music festival. Now Jess will be on a road trip with her mom and her grandmother instead. And worse, her best friend Flora is going to the same music festival as Fred.
Sue Limb's writing captures the funny, difficult, prickly, and lovely parts of being (nearly) 16.
The series includes:
Girl, 15, Charming But Insane
Girl (nearly) 16: Absolute Torture
Girl 16: Pants On Fire (coming May 2006)
