FREE Comic Diary (4/7-8): What If the Hokey Pokey Really Is What It's All About?

[Rebecca]

http://www.amazon.com/Hokey-Pokey-Rea...

From a 4-star review on AmazonUK/Goodreads Jan. 2012

"What If The Hokey Pokey Really Is What It's All About?" follows Piccolo and her mother, Judy, as they leave Piccolo's cheating father, Rudy. They decide to go on a road trip across America, visiting various friends and relatives along the way. The girls are technically on the run as nobody knows where they have gone or where to find them.

. . . The characters are vivid and intriguing throughout. All have different quirks - for example, the dead neighbour Isabelle who supposedly kept her husband's skull in a jar in her garage, mad Irish Setter Salsa who enjoys digging trenches in gardens, and the eccentric Englishwoman Prunella who offers Judy and Piccolo a place in which to stay.

. . . Piccolo's narrative voice is distinctive from the outset. Burke has managed to capture an authentic teenage voice perfectly. The diary entries allow the reader to get inside Piccolo's head - to laugh along with her and to cringe at all of the embarrassing moments which occur in her life. She is an incredibly likable narrator who makes the best out of every bad situation.

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What If The Hokey Pokey Really Is What It's All About? is an extremely fun read, and is both amusing and compulsively readable. It is a book that can be finished relatively quickly, but is one that teenage girls will adore."