Finch's Secret Diaries
1 primary work • 4 total works
Book 3
Finch is back in a fourth Do Not Read book. This story joins Finch where we left her at the end of Do Not Read - Or Else, as she is beginning to get to know her father. But having a new family may not be as easy or as much fun as Finch thought it would be...Told in Pat Moon's inimitable style, and illustrated throughout by Sarah Nayler, this book is sure to delight all Do Not Read fans...
Finch and her friends have so much to worry about in their lives that they decide to start a school website called 'What's Your Problem?'. It turns out they're not the only ones with worries! From how to deal with the embarrassment of snorting pink milkshake all over the boy you fancy, to how to deal with bullying - they all get all sorts of emails that need answering. But Finch's biggest concern of all is whether Jay, her new boyfriend, will ever actually kiss her? Lively illustrations appear throughout.
"Nolly's given me this notebook to take my mind off my insides. I love its starry cover and its smooth white pages just waiting to be filled up...I will use it to record my life and secret thoughts..." Life is pretty good for eleven-year-old Finch. She lives with her unconventional 'girl power' family - a messy, scatty Mum - and a chain-smoking adopted gran, Nolly. But then things begin to change...Her best friend Cassie goes to a different school - and her gran falls ill. And then there's her mum's new boyfriend who doesn't measure up to Finch's image of her dead dad, and who spends far too much time with Finch's mum. Finch wants things to go back to the way they were. But when her campaign to get rid of 'Action Man' does succeed, Finch finds that she's bitten off more than she can chew.
Finch is back in this third "Do Not Read" book, once again, told through diary format. Finch's mum is about to have triplets, Grandma Nolly is about to marry her sweetheart, biker Bill, and among all this mayhem, Finch is determined to find out exactly who her real father is. Unknown to Finch's mum, Finch gets in touch with her mum's old school friends through Friends Reunited and finally gets to meet her dad. This throws up lots of new challenges for Finch, but there's lots of laughter along the way too...