My Maths Disaster – or the Long Road to the First Kiss
Children & Young Adult, Young Adult, YA Age 12+, YA Friends / Family, YA Love / Romance
What a start to Lilly’s seventh grade year! She’s been saddled with the responsibility of running the school blog. Of course there’s no way she can write about what’s really going on. So she runs a parallel version—a Top Secret one!—in which she keeps note of who’s top of the boys’ hotlist, how to survive a class outing with the new art teacher (you pair the old hippie off with the class teacher!) and how to shake off annoying admirers while simultaneously taking revenge on nauseating bitches (you write fake love letters to the former from the latter). She also records a few things you really ought to avoid (such as entering the maths Olympics when in fact you hate the subject, just because the boy of your dreams is taking part.) In other words she tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
• A witty and warm-hearted graphic novel for girls aged 11 and up about friendship, love, teachers and cat-fights—in a word the everyday madness of teenage life!
Ulrike Rylance was born in 1968 and studied English and German in Leipzig and London. She was an assistant teacher in Wales and Manchester, and also taught German to children and adults in London. In 2001 she moved to Seattle, USA, with her husband and two daughters.
Carla Nagel was born in 1988 in Freiburg. She studied graphic design in Munich and works today as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator.
What a start to Lilly’s seventh grade year! She’s been saddled with the responsibility of running the school blog. Of course there’s no way she can write about what’s really going on. So she runs a parallel version—a Top Secret one!—in which she keeps note of who’s top of the boys’ hotlist, how to survive a class outing with the new art teacher (you pair the old hippie off with the class teacher!) and how to shake off annoying admirers while simultaneously taking revenge on nauseating bitches (you write fake love letters to the former from the latter). She also records a few things you really ought to avoid (such as entering the maths Olympics when in fact you hate the subject, just because the boy of your dreams is taking part.) In other words she tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
• A witty and warm-hearted graphic novel for girls aged 11 and up about friendship, love, teachers and cat-fights—in a word the everyday madness of teenage life!