My Mum and the Gruesome Twosome

by Meg Harper (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $6.30

  Twelve-year-old Kate is appalled and embarrassed when her Mum announces that she's pregnant. And then it turns out that she is having twins! Unfortunately Kate's preoccupation with the subject not only results in all sorts of family squabbles but also causes hiccups in her growing friendship with Chas...A perceptive and funny story about some of the hassles of growing up. My Mum and Other Horror Stories was shortlisted for the Birmingham Cable Children's Book Award: 'Meg Harper is brilliant on the agonies of early adolescence, the fear of bullying and that tricky time in a young girl's life when boys are no longer just friends but, gulp, The Opposite Sex.' The Northern Echo

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.28

  Being a teenager is difficult enough - without suddenly finding out that your mum is pregnant. And then there's the new girl, Carly. Best friend Chas seems a bit too keen to help her settle in, and Kate feels that her whole life is falling apart...