Lou!
8 primary works • 9 total works
Book 1
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Book 2
Book 3
Book 3
Book 4
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Lou shares the high and low points of being twelve as she takes a few awkward steps into dating, plays matchmaker for her single mother, and discovers, along with her best friend Mina, that they may be outgrowing playing with dolls.
Lou shares her year, detailing its high points like Christmas. She celebrates these with her mum in a Paris flat which looks, well, "lived in". Please don't laugh at her awkward first steps in the dating game: Valentine's day starts well, until schemes begin to unravel ...Lou! won the 2005 Angouleme award in the 9-12 year category for author Julien Neel.
Twelve-year-old Lou's attempt to play matchmaker for her mother and Richard are foiled by a mandatory visit with her grandmother, which is marked by boredom, Brussel sprouts, and Memaw's own plans for Mom's love life.
Lou finds it confusing and difficult to be thirteen, especially with her mother and Richard's romance heating up, being separated from her best friend Mina at school, and getting another letter from Paul when she never answered the first one.
Party time ...only home is too small, Mum is getting her novel published, Lou's new friend is being rejected by old friends and she just can't find the right words to write to this guy she met last holidays. The pressure is too much, and the solutions is ...a bus pound?
Lou and her friends find romance when they spend summer vacation at a posh beach house, while Lou's mother travels on a book tour for her new science fiction novel.
Furry underpants - who dares to wear? Mum's holiday is an author tour, so Lou vacations with a friend, whose parents are conventionally bossy and clueless. As mate-hunting starts in earnest, SOMEONE is going to get burned, big time ...
Fire! Their whole world goes up in smoke. Mum, boyfriend and daughter gamely face the future - but that will not stop life's complications - each must cope in their own way: escape, reminiscences, snacking. Until Lou gets her hands on Mum's dairy...