Being a prepubescent girl is hard, and Georgia perfectly depicts some of the struggles middle-school and high school girls go through.

Georgia is insecure about her physical appearance and her personality, something that many tween girls, including myself, went through at that age. Fourteen -year-old Georgia is a character that reflects what being in that weird age is really like. To begin, I realized the reason why the movie and books were so influential to me, is because they appealed to my teenage girl heart. A lthough it is a classic, I noticed aspects of the movie that I overlooked as a 12-year-old girl. Twe lve years later, I decided to rent the movie and determine if it is as good as I remember. This movie shaped my middle school experience and introduced me to British artists like Scouting for Girls and Mumm-ra. I cannot be the only American girl who pretended to be British and had the biggest crush on Aaron Johnson. I would like to say I have left “Angus, thongs and perfect snogging” in my teenage past, but I quote the movie daily.

I remember reading the series with my two best friends and being so excited for the 2008 Nickelodeon adaptation of the book “Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging. I went to a party dressed as a stuffed olive.Paulina Astrid Spencer, Entertainment Editorīeing a tween in the late 2000’s, I spent majority of my middle school years reading the “Confessions of Georgia Nicholson” series by Louise Renninson. I am very ugly and need to go into an ugly home.Ħ. In fourteen days the summer hols will be over and then it will be back to Stalag 14 and Oberfuhrer Frau Simpson and her bunch of sadistic ‘teachers’.ĥ. I have a three-year-old sister who may have peed somewhere in my room.Ĥ. I have one of those under-the-skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk in a red way for the next two years.ģ. There are six things very wrong with my life:ġ. Louise is an international bestselling author and her books can’t fail to make you laugh out loud. Now repackaged in a gorgeous new paperback and looking even fabber than ever. Brilliantly funny, teenage angst author Louise Rennison’s first book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson.

Full frontal snogging