Prim Improper
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Primrose Leary, aged 13. Likes: her pet rat, Roderick; her best friend, Joel; being a little bit different (but not in the weird different sense - she wouldn't like to be the only bald girl in her class or the only girl who always smelled of ham, or anything). Dislikes: living with Fintan (her moustachioed Dad); the boy-school that Joel's toddled off to without her; not having her mum around any more. Hilariously and cleverly written, Prim Improper is the debut novel from Deirdre Sullivan.This diary-style book, complete with Prim's signature tongue-in-cheek word definitions, is the smart girl's guide to teenage life.
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Deirdre Sullivan is from Galway and is now living in Dublin, where she works as a teacher.
Her hugely acclaimed Tangleweed and Brine, a collection of feminist retellings of classic fairytales, won the Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Award in 2018 and Young Adult Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2017. Previously, her novel Needlework had won the Honour Award for Fiction at the Children's Books Ireland Awards in 2017.
Sullivan's Primrose Leary series was also widely praised; two of the Prim books were shortlisted for the Children's Books Ireland Awards; and the final one, Primperfect, was also shortlisted for the European Prize for Literature.
Content
- Intro
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- My Father and His House
- Roderick
- What to do Next
- The Questionable Practices of My Doctor
- Hair: The Argument!
- My Pal Joel
- Things I Do Not Like: A Non-Comprehensive List of Yucks
- What Mum was Like
- Single Sex .
- Hedda
- Proper Big Girl and Boy School, now with added Homework!!
- Notes are a Scandal
- Later .
- My Hero
- The Essay I Didn't Hand Up
- Analysis
- Après Meeting
- Two Decisions from the Offices of the Great Moustache
- A Silly Thing I Did
- Oh No!!!!
- Later
- A Poem I Wrote
- Felix the Not-Cat
- Tales from the Crypt
- Top 10 Reasons Lucrezia Smith Might be a Goth in her Free Time.
- One and a Half Reasons I Might be Mistaken about Ms Smith
- Crypt-ic Stories
- Things that Happened in 1896
- Ella and I
- Spooky Spooky Ghost Night Approaches, All Menacing and Full of Sweets .
- Growing Pain (in the Neck)s
- Regrets
- Relief!
- Horror of Horrors
- The Perfect Crime
- Developments and Former Possible Party Nostalgia
- Bra, Bra Eile
- Give Me Your Answer Do
- Two Days Later
- Not Talking To People
- A Spy in the House
- Distractions
- Felix and the Cat
- Ugh, Yay and ??? : Three Pieces of News from Our Class
- Sometimes, I Like My Dad
- Sigh
- Dispatches from a Strange Location
- In-Mum-Nia
- Secrets that I could find out from Mum's Old Diaries
- I Get a Row (Row, Get a Row, I Get a Row)
- Trial and Error
- Primmy
- Ready for the Weekend
- My Friday Feelings
- Baby Love
- Baby Adolf
- Guess Who's Not Going to Mayo?
- Ha
- Later
- Gossip!
- Meow-Overs and a Bloody Fantastic Teddy
- The Best Dance in the World Ever!!!
- Rocking Around My Christmas List
- Sketched
- All Head Things Come to an End
- Disturbing
- 'Twas the Week Before Christmas .
- Carat and Stick
- Later
- Sleigh Bells Ring
- With My Own Two Pies
- Presents of Mind
- People Who Think I'm in the Right for Punching Karen
- People Who Think I'm in the Wrong for Punching Karen
- Clear and Present Danger
- Thumb Outside the Fist
- Glove and Warmth
- Last Week of School
- Card-Shark
- Eep
- Topper the Morning to You
- Sch-Yule Holly-Days!
- Possible Openers for Dinner Conversation in Order to Include the Daddy-Man
- All About Christmas Eve Eve (And Some About Christmas Eve)
- Gold Turkey
- Goodbye, Mr Moustache
- Top 10 Reasons Everything Will Turn Out for the Best, Even Though my Father Wants to Murder Me
- PS: Some More Reasons.
- What Happens Now
