Geek Girl books 1-3: Geek Girl, Model Misfit and Picture Perfect
“My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek.”The first three hilarious novels in the award-winning GEEK GIRL series – now available as a 3-book collection.Geek Girl:Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a “jiffy” lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day.But she doesn’t know why nobody at school seems to like her.So when Harriet is spotted by a top model agent, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself…Model Misfit:Harriet Manners knows that humans have 70,000 thoughts per day.She also knows that Geek + Model = a whole new set of graffiti on your belongings.But Harriet doesn’t know where she’s going to fit in once the new baby arrives. And with her summer plans ruined, modelling in Japan seems the perfect chance to get away…Will geek girl find her place on the other side of the world?Picture Perfect:Harriet Manners knows that New York is the most populous city in the United States.She knows that its official motto is ‘Ever Upward’.But she knows nothing whatsoever about modelling in the Big Apple and how her family will cope with life stateside. Or ‘becoming a brand’ as the models in New York say. And even more importantly, what to do when the big romantic gestures aren’t coming your way from your boyfriend…Does geek girl go too far this time?The award-winning debut, GEEK GIRL, and brilliant follow-up titles in the bestselling series by Holly Smale.
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HOLLY SMALE
GEEK GIRL 1-3 BOOK COLLECTION
Geek Girl
Model Misfit
Picture Perfect
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Geek Girl: 9780007489459
Model Misfit: 9780007489473
Picture Perfect: 9780007489497
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For my grandad. My favourite geek.
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geek/gi:k/h noun informal, chiefly N. Amer.
1 an unfashionable or socially inept person.
2 an obsessive enthusiast.
3 a person who feels the need to look up the word âgeekâ in the dictionary.
DERIVATIVES geeky adjective.
ORIGIN from the related English dialect word geck âfoolâ.
I know Iâm a geek because Iâve just looked it up in the Oxford English Dictionary. I drew a little tick next to all the symptoms I recognise, and I appear to have them all. Which â and I should be perfectly honest here â hasnât come as an enormous surprise. The fact that I have an Oxford English Dictionary on my bedside table anyway should have been one clue. That I keep a Natural History Museum pencil and ruler next to it so that I can neatly underline interesting entries should have been another.
Oh, and then thereâs the word GEEK, drawn in red marker pen on the outside pocket of my school satchel. That was done yesterday.
I didnât do it, obviously. If I did decide to deface my own property, Iâd choose a poignant line from a really good book, or an interesting fact not many people know. And I definitely wouldnât do it in red. Iâd do it in black, or blue, or perhaps green. Iâm not a big fan of the colour red, even if it is the longest wavelength of light discernible by the human eye.
To be absolutely candid with you, I donât actually know who decided to write on my bag â although I have my suspicions â but I can tell you that their writing is almost illegible. They clearly werenât listening during our English lesson last week when we were told that handwriting is a very important Expression of the Self. Which is quite lucky because if I can just find a similar shade of pen, I might be able to slip in the letter R in between G and E. I can pretend that itâs a reference to my interest in ancient history and feta cheese.
I prefer Cheddar, but nobody has to know that.
Anyway, the point is: as my satchel, the anonymous vandal and the Oxford English Dictionary appear to agree with each other, I can only conclude that I am, in fact, a geek.
Did you know that in the old days the word âgeekâ was used to describe a carnival performer who bit the head off a live chicken or snake or bat as part of their stage act?
Exactly. Only a geek would know a thing like that.
