Rennison, Louise. Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging:Confessions of Georgia Nicolson.New York: Harper Collins.1999.
Annotation: 14 year old Georgia Nicolson’s diary entries over the course of a school year, documenting her teenage angst. Topics of discussion include friends, school, family, pets, and of course boys.
Justification for Nomination: Rennison does a great job portraying the life of a 14 year old girl. Georgia comes alive on the pages of her diary, with (very amusing!) passages detailing her daily “hardships” that include fights with her best friend, Jas, boy troubles, and family issues. Georgia is constantly upset about something, and portrays it in a very readable way with plenty of dry humor and sarcasm. Rennison captures the reader with the descriptive stories that bring us back to the days when we dealt with the same situations. It really is a page turner that is full of surprises. To look at it from an adolescent point of view, I think girls will be more likely to find the book entertaining, and they are obviously the target reader. If I were reading this as an adolescent, I think I could completely relate to all of Georgia’s issues she struggles with in her diary. Great book!
Genre category: Teen fiction
Annotation: 14 year old Georgia Nicolson’s diary entries over the course of a school year, documenting her teenage angst. Topics of discussion include friends, school, family, pets, and of course boys.
Justification for Nomination: Rennison does a great job portraying the life of a 14 year old girl. Georgia comes alive on the pages of her diary, with (very amusing!) passages detailing her daily “hardships” that include fights with her best friend, Jas, boy troubles, and family issues. Georgia is constantly upset about something, and portrays it in a very readable way with plenty of dry humor and sarcasm. Rennison captures the reader with the descriptive stories that bring us back to the days when we dealt with the same situations. It really is a page turner that is full of surprises. To look at it from an adolescent point of view, I think girls will be more likely to find the book entertaining, and they are obviously the target reader. If I were reading this as an adolescent, I think I could completely relate to all of Georgia’s issues she struggles with in her diary. Great book!
Genre category: Teen fiction
1 comment:
Hi Christine: thanks for your review and nomination. One request for all reviews--for the genre identification, I'd appreciate it if you could use the genre categories assigned for class--so in this case, Printz Award winner, humor, and coming of age would all be valid. We're only at the beginning of the award process, but eventually, students will be attempting to read as many nominees as possible to be able to participate in discussion and voting for the final award selections. If someone is assigned humor, for instance, they might want to choose this title for that genre requirement to prepare for the Mock Printz process, going the "two birds with one stone" route. thanks so much! adela
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