Geek Girl #1: Geek Girl Award-winning author by Holly Smale (author)

Harriet’s first adventure: the geek-chic classic you all want to be seen with! Know-it-all Harriet has no friends, but she’s got brains – and beauty, too. When she’s spotted by a top model agency, can she go from class geek to catwalk superstar? Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear and that a ‘jiffy’ lasts 1/100th of a second. Here are some things she doesn’t know. 1) How to be normal. 2) Why nobody likes her. So when Harriet is spotted by a modelling scout, she grabs the chance to become popular. There’s only one problem: the snooty world of fashion doesn’t seem to like her any more than the real world does. (But you’ll fall in love.)

First in this quirky series about a geek turned model

Winner of the 2014 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize

Geek Girl was the UK’s bestselling YA book in 2013

“A smart, sassy and very funny debut” – The Bookseller

Product Details

Series

Geek Girl (book 1)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780007957804

Date published

April 7th, 2016

Condition

New

Part of this Series

Geek Girl

Author/Illustrator

Holly Smale

Holly Smale is the author of the bestselling Geek Girl books. She was unexpectedly spotted by a top London modelling agency at the age of fifteen and spent the following two years falling over on catwalks, going bright red and breaking things she couldn’t afford to replace. By the time Holly had graduated from Bristol University with a BA in English Literature and an MA in Shakespeare she had given up modelling and set herself on the path to becoming a writer.

Geek Girl was the no. 1 bestselling young adult fiction title in the UK in 2013. It was shortlisted for several major awards including the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Branford Boase award, nominated for the Queen of Teen award and won the teen and young adult category of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the 11-14 category of the Leeds Book Award.