The Taming of the Tights (Misadventures of Tallulah Casey)
Fifteen-year-old Tallulah boards with a benignly strange village family while attending an artsy college (British high school) neighboring a school for “bad boys.” At school, Lullah’s gal group is known as the Tree Sisters, because they make their (usually group) assignations with the lads from the neighboring school at a post in the woods between institutions. The younger cousin of Georgia—who has her own series, kicked off in Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging (2000)—Lullah works here to combine Georgia’s romantic insights, her own attraction to Charlie, and her distraction with village Lothario Cain, all while staying on as good a side as she can with her school’s owlish headmistress. Third in the (Mis)Adventures of Tallulah Casey series (after Withering Tights, 2011), this very British teen chick lit will find its most welcome audience among Georgia fans. A lot of small events happen, strung together with Lullah’s lists, obsessive worrying, and, though not very thoroughly realized in print, silly dancing. Grades 7-10. --Francisca Goldsmith