FREE: The Year my Life Went Down the Loo by Katie Maxwell

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Gr. 10-12. Transplanted from Seattle to an English hamlet called Piddlington-on-the-Weld, 16-year-old Emily Williams braces herself for a year abroad. Life in a country "that still has discos!" really "irks her pickle." No makeup is allowed at school, and the uniforms are "gacky"; at home, a poltergeist haunts her panty drawer, and her parents are generally appalling. Emily vents her frustrations in wickedly funny e-mails to her best friend, spiced with British slang and her own idiosyncratic coinages. Sex is a major theme here..., but despite Emily's air of worldliness, her essential naivete becomes obvious when she falls in with a more experienced crew -- for whom drinking and sex are apparently common leisure activities...