By Barry Jonsberg
ISBN-10: 1741144841
ISBN-13: 9781741144840
The sequel to the hilarious but poignant The complete company with Kiffo and the Pitbull. Laugh-out-loud humour with a robust beating middle and a sting within the tail.
Calma Harrison is in love. not only with herself, but in addition with the good-looking checkout man at Crazi-Cheep. but if Calma will get a task at Crazi-Cheep, her cynical method of customer support makes headlines. after which there is the small subject of the remainder of her existence, that is quickly falling aside: her absent father turns up suddenly and needs to 'talk'; her mom, The refrigerator, is retaining secrets and techniques; and her new ally, Vanessa, is hiding whatever terrible. Fearing the worst for her friends and family, Calma is familiar with the single yes strategy to form occasions is direct, own intervention...
It's no longer all approximately YOU, Calma! is a daring and witty novel approximately friendship, loyalty and performing on impulse.
Praise for The complete company with Kiffo and the Pitbull
'This is the simplest teenager fiction i've got learn in years. Barry Jonsberg's first novel is an absolute insurrection. As hilarious because it is poignant, The complete enterprise with Kiffo and the Pitbull can be on each year-10 syllabus within the state. If this booklet does not lead them to are looking to learn, not anything will.' - The Age
'Magnificent! enjoyed it! Laughed, snorted, and snickered maniacally at the subway throughout it. it truly is taking nice restraint to not run down the corridor and skim bits aloud to humans' - Nancy Siscoe, Knopf USA
'Jonsberg's writing is clean and humorous, and bites with fierce teenage realism.' - Children's Bookseller + Publisher, April 2004
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It mates and moves on quickly, effectively diluting its own gene pool. This is worrying since the pool was little more than a puddle in the first place. Appearance: Short, stumpy and follically challenged. Toxicity: Close contact is not fatal, though debilitating symptoms might persevere for years. Best avoided, unless wearing full body armour. Status: Unfortunately, not extinct. We eyed each other for what seemed an age. He was trying to smile, but it was more like a smirk. I don’t know what my expression looked like, for obvious reasons, but I suspect ‘glacial’ might approximate.
I forgot to stay mad at Vanessa. 58 Calma-TEXT PAGES 4/8/05 4:49 PM Page 59 Chapter 7 Keeping the Fridge up to speed Dear Fridge, I am writing this slowly because I know you can’t read fast. It is spring in the Antipodes and the sap is rising. I am not referring to your ex-husband, incidentally. No, I am merely identifying the season and its signifiers: primal juices are abundant within nature, new shoots appear, blossoms unfurl. So too beats the primeval rhythm within the human breast, a beat to which I am not immune.
Maybe he was frantic with anxiety. 35 pm, I rang him. We arranged to go to the movies on Friday. I forgot to stay mad at Vanessa. 58 Calma-TEXT PAGES 4/8/05 4:49 PM Page 59 Chapter 7 Keeping the Fridge up to speed Dear Fridge, I am writing this slowly because I know you can’t read fast. It is spring in the Antipodes and the sap is rising. I am not referring to your ex-husband, incidentally. No, I am merely identifying the season and its signifiers: primal juices are abundant within nature, new shoots appear, blossoms unfurl.
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