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282nd out of 291 books
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Socks Are Not Enough
by
Mark Lowery
Mike Swarbrick's life couldn't get any worse. His pervy best friend gets him embroiled in a scandal involving the girls' changing rooms, his idiot of an older brother is snogging the girl of his dreams and he's just come home early from school to discover his parents are secret nudists... but they're ready to go public! A chain of events beyond his control are set to RUIN...more
Paperback, 238 pages
Published
2011
by Scholastic
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I really enjoyed this book. It is about a 14-year-old boy Michael Swarbrick who has a lot of stuff going on around him that he doesn't like. His brother is an idiot and is going out with the girl he fancies (or that he admires as he prefers to say) and his parents are nudists. And pretty much because of them he gets himself into many embarrassing situations and gets the blame for a lot of stuff, so much so that he even becomes an "international hate figure". It's pretty funny how he gets into al...more
Socks Are Not Enough is a hilarious debut from Mark Lowery and one that I'd recommend to fans of Adrian Mole or the more recent One Seriously Messed-Up Week in the Otherwise Mundane and Uneventful Life of Jack Samsonite by Tom Clempson.
14 year old Michael's life is turned upside down the day he comes home early and discovers that his parents are secret nudists. As if the shock of seeing his parents naked wasn't bad enough they've now decided that they want to go out in public. To make matters ev...more
14 year old Michael's life is turned upside down the day he comes home early and discovers that his parents are secret nudists. As if the shock of seeing his parents naked wasn't bad enough they've now decided that they want to go out in public. To make matters ev...more
Mike the central character is a geeky, awkward 14 year old. His life is a serious of embarrassing events; from his pervy best friend to his older brother who is going out with the girl of Mike's dreams and his nudist parents. Mike's life is definitely not easy! Mike is referred to the school councillor as no one seems to understand the events he is having to deal with, from there he is referred to a 60's throwback University professor. Chas discovers the event that has made Mike terrified of don...more
A witty and deliciously cringe-inducing book. Seen as a flashbacks on a tragi-comedy from the point of view of an adolescent forced into counselling, the hilarious mishap set pieces are tied together by an unlikely hero child with a briefcase. There are some lovely characters and some grotesques, but we never really get to know how the donkey felt about everything.
Read it with my sons, aged 12 and 10. My 12 year old loved it - he found the content hilarious and the style accessible. This is the first book that he has really engaged with; I'm a very happy Mum! My 10 year old enjoyed it but found the concept of naked parents hugely cringeworthy... which enhanced the enjoyment of my 12 year old even more!
This book is gripping, funny, well written and exciting. I rooted for micheal from the first page.
I wasn't expecting much at first, thought it was just going to be purely humourous, but to my elation it is actually quite dark.
I loved it.
I wasn't expecting much at first, thought it was just going to be purely humourous, but to my elation it is actually quite dark.
I loved it.
As one of the "Michaels" of this world, I was on his side the whole time. Call it OCD, autism, uptight, whatever; he was a great narrator of some bizarre events. Great story.
Brilliant .If I could write as well as I can read, I would write book like this.
Witty, not overbearing and despite the main heroes Big issues very normal.
Witty, not overbearing and despite the main heroes Big issues very normal.
Amusing teen novel about a boy traumatised by his parents becoming nudists.
Very good. Fantastically quirky main character, great style and story, lovely children's book.
So funny. Great for teens who think they have daggy parents :)
Pretty funny! A nice diary-style alternative to Jeff Kinney...
Mar 17, 2013
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An amazingly funny book. I really enjoyed it !
Good fun, with some laugh out loud moments, but frustratingly bad cover choice for a bookseller to do anything with. It looks like a book for 8 year olds, reads like a book for 10 year olds but has themes that are better suited to 12+
A fun story, I liked the style it was written in. Quite a few laughs. I think it would be great read aloud to my class. Going to try that this term.
kalau parents kau nudist pun kau akan jadi tension mcm dia
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