Funny, Anxious And Very True To Tween Life
Birdie's overthinking gives the book its comic engine, but also its emotional truth. It is exactly the sort of illustrated middle-grade fiction that feels funny, familiar and instantly shareable with young readers.
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Funny, Anxious And Very True To Tween Life
Birdie's overthinking gives the book its comic engine, but also its emotional truth. It is exactly the sort of illustrated middle-grade fiction that feels funny, familiar and instantly shareable with young readers.
- Book Synopsis
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Ideal for readers who:
- Have a weakness for funny diary-style fiction about friendship drama, crushes and school worries
- Recognise the appeal of a heroine whose anxious inner life is both relatable and hilarious
- Are looking for illustrated middle-grade stories full of overthinking and awkwardness
- Need a lively, funny and very relatable tween read
Birdie is exactly the kind of character that younger readers recognise instantly: dramatic, funny, worried about everything and trying very hard to fix her life with a plan that may or may not work. That makes the book feel both comic and emotionally familiar.
The diary-style voice gives the story pace and intimacy, while the illustrations help keep everything brisk and playful. Friendship wobble, school panic and pre-teen embarrassment are all handled with warmth rather than condescension.
For readers who love the energy of Lottie Brooks or Dork Diaries, this feels like an easy hand-sell.
- About The Author
- Nat is a BAFTA, Royal Society of Literature and Royal Academy of Art nominee. She is an award-nominated stand-up comedian, appearing on Channel 4, BBC3 and Radio 4, and taking ten shows to the Edinburgh Festival. Her sketch group, Jigsaw, had two series of their own show on Radio 4. She wrote a short film, Island Queen, which was nominated for a BAFTA, and she's since written/directed six more short films. She plays Tallulah Bankhead in Florence Foster Jenkins and her first feature, Butterfly Stroke, starring Judy Davis and Florence Hunt, is out to film festivals in 2026. Nat is the author of six books, and her second one, Girl Out of Water, is being developed for TV with the BFI. And most importantly, she overthinks a lot less than she used to.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781835409978
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Usborne Publishing Ltd., (12 March 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 339
- Weight
- 297 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 130 x 22 mm
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