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Townsend, Sue
THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE, AGED 13 3/4
New York : Avon, 1982.
IL YA RL 5.9
ISBN 0380868768
This diary of a 13 year old is full of humorous anecdotes celebrating Adrian Mole's puberty. His diary entries begin with New Year's resolution and takes us into his varied activities which include covering the clown wallpaper in his bedroom with black paint -- getting involved in finding a nursing home for a 90 year old man who ends up befriending him and asking him to arrange details for his marriage to an 80 year old fellow nursing home resident. Through it all, his mom leaves home to express her independence and liberation and his dad loses his job and fights or fuels depression with frequent shots of whiskey. Set in England, there are a few words that are conspicuously different --spots are just as ugly as zits.
SUBJECTS:     Adolescence  -- Fiction

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