The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

By Sue Townsend

Subjects: Teenage boys England Fiction, Humorous stories, Diary fiction, England, fiction, Young adult fiction, Family problems, Teenage boys, Adrian Mole (Fictitious character), English drama, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), Manners and customs, Great Britain Social life and customs 1945-, Teen humourous stories, Youth, Fiction, humorous, general, Diaries, Mole, adrian (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, Drama, Social life and customs, Fiction, humorous, English literature, Adolescence, Juvenile fiction, Young men, Mole, Adrian (Fictitious character) Fiction

Description: From book jacket: Adrian Mole is a worrier. The problems of existence hit him hard. Spots, bits of him that won't seem to keep still, the cracks in his parents' marriage, all prey heavily on his mind. There are some consolations. A 14 year old feminist, an 89 year old chain smoker and his spoilt best friend all help to lift the gloomy introspection of Mole's moods. Mole believes he is an intellectual. He is certainly a poet. He buys strikingly coloured stationery on which to write his poems and send them to the B.B.C. He is dogged by ill health as well as by an infuriatingly ever-present pet dog, and by a catalogue of misfortunes familiar to anyone over the age of 13. ... Sue Townsend's original creation .. [is] a hilarious delight.