Girls, Guys and Choc-cherry Pies

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Girl vs. the World is a fun, true-to-lifeseries about navigating high school, first crushes, and the ups and downs of adolescence.

Leni has so many questions about growing up. And it seems the biggest ones are about herself

Athletics star Leni is totally confused. Shes trained with her friend Adam for ages, so why is he suddenly acting strangely around her And whats she supposed to do about the kissing competition that her besties organised Theres no-one Lenis even remotely into and besides, shed rather hang out with Jo, the new girl at school.

Jos cool and fun and really seems to understand Leni. But as their friendship grows, Leni starts wondering if they might be more than friends. Maybe there is someone shed like to kiss after all

Refreshingly honest anddeliciously heartwarming, this seriesis perfect for readers aged 10 to 13.

Author Bio

The first thing that Meredith Badger ever wanted to be was a writer and illustrator. Actually, the very first thing she wanted to be was a tight-rope walker because she wanted to wear a tutu and carry a parasol. But once she realised her balance wasnt all that great, she decided shed like to make books instead. And this is exactly what she has done since her first published story appeared in DOLLY magazine at the age of 15. Today Meredith is the modest author of over 375,000 books sold across Australia and New Zealand. She is one of the main contributing authors of the phenomenal Go Girl! titles, a series which has now sold over 1.6 million copies across Australia and New Zealand since 2005. Her penned titles are a favourite with the young fans of the series and her popularity is reflected in her event appearances. Meredith was most recently mobbed while visiting schools in the highly publicised Books Alive 2008 campaign. This ability to connect with the real girls of today is something that Meredith takes pride in Writing a Go Girl! often involves delving back into distant schoolyard memories. Sometimes they are funny in hindsight, sometimes they are still embarrassing or painful! Lots of things have changed since I was at school, but the fundamentals are still the same friendship, siblings, sport, school, and the ups and downs of life as a pre-teen. Merediths other credits include writing and illustrating a picture book Cinderella, with an Australian twist and the very cute Fairy School Drop-Out trilogy. Fairy School Drop-out came about when Meredith found herself wondering what if you were born a fairy, but werent very good at being oneand would rather be normal The fun part of this series was inventing all the high-tech fairy contraptions, says Meredith. The problem is I started to really want the things that I invented like the hover lamp, for instance. Her most recently completed book Tweenie Genie: Genie in Training aims to debunk the myths surrounding genies. Poppy discovers on her twelfth birthday that she is not as ordinary as she had always presumed. She is actually a genie, and is expected to start behaving like one straight away! Meredith divides her time between working in new media, writing, and eaves-dropping on kids when shes in her local South Melbourne park with her three-year-old daughter.