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Geek Girl and Model Misfit
Holly Smale
“My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek.”The first two hilarious novels in the award-winning GEEK GIRL series – now available as a 2-book collection.Geek Girl:Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a “jiffy” lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. She knows that bats always turn left when exiting a cave and that peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.But she doesn’t know why nobody at school seems to like her.So when Harriet is spotted by a top model agent, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself…Model Misfit:Harriet Manners knows that humans have 70,000 thoughts per day.She also knows that Geek + Model = a whole new set of graffiti on your belongings.And that the average person eats a ton of food a year, though her pregnant stepmother is doing her best to beat this.But Harriet doesn’t know where she’s going to fit in once the new baby arrives. And with her summer plans ruined, modelling in Japan seems the perfect chance to get away…Will geek girl find her place on the other side of the world?The award-winning debut GEEK GIRL and sequel MODEL MISFIT by bestselling author Holly Smale.
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Geek Girl (#u3dd848a5-42b7-5423-bba3-ff163cc23a4c)
Model Misfit (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
For my grandad. My favourite geek.
Contents
Dedication (#u90bef74a-bd41-5707-b2e2-7cb74d380125)
Chapter 1 (#ulink_0bdd645d-f623-51b3-b137-a90150b8258a)
Chapter 2 (#ulink_6459fa0c-6455-5501-9f9e-7b5b93f9767f)
Chapter 3 (#ulink_804a6b8f-1692-5eba-bd73-b8dfc3c93f85)
Chapter 4 (#ulink_bdfdbd8a-5acd-558f-a9d6-b7ce749d8589)
Chapter 5 (#ulink_d8c5e282-c6ed-511e-87fb-9c2333dfa5bd)
Chapter 6 (#ulink_5e6984b3-69ac-54e7-b8cc-b4b768eddb62)
Chapter 7 (#ulink_4dde159a-7272-5eb7-a4f4-ddb4b292446c)
Chapter 8 (#ulink_ca93ed47-0956-5799-bb7e-10e225838f30)
Chapter 9 (#ulink_92d5edcc-8457-5752-a37e-3a7753d7196f)
Chapter 10 (#ulink_8f1a6e8d-6c0c-57d6-a533-8355c7c328fe)
Chapter 11 (#ulink_c94c5700-664b-5e41-b441-f2e8924470f1)
Chapter 12 (#ulink_a63d2bcb-2f0e-5e89-8c97-ad3150833a59)
Chapter 13 (#ulink_68575002-0ea3-5e9c-9b05-5d0bd9418e11)
Chapter 14 (#ulink_e826e5c4-d1c8-54c6-8860-f635e6e138ef)
Chapter 15 (#ulink_00cbc83d-daec-52c3-8e0c-86f06a9e854c)
Chapter 16 (#ulink_824ad13c-b1ce-579f-9f27-1b09b7a93061)
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Chapter 18 (#ulink_f9b8d7f1-eda6-5f86-beef-5e87481fc681)
Chapter 19 (#ulink_c1bd2f0f-c703-5ce6-81f4-b72f5af314e0)
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Chapter 21 (#ulink_366d978a-5bb9-5ebe-b7f3-c8528dd5b95b)
Chapter 22 (#ulink_15982279-3642-5411-b133-9ea75b540410)
Chapter 23 (#ulink_b7db0976-4cc3-5b16-8289-844fd768740c)
Chapter 24 (#ulink_b68c1799-81f9-5812-b7de-c78e61213341)
Chapter 25 (#ulink_f18f10f8-88f7-5b1c-879b-59f692a61165)
Chapter 26 (#ulink_cfba0413-c507-5c83-bf66-8241e11c27cd)
Chapter 27 (#ulink_dcb16123-1c31-5058-a010-530bb02af64b)
Chapter 28 (#ulink_d5fc5606-3633-5d29-881e-ef054802fa5f)
Chapter 29 (#ulink_82f7c992-0553-51f0-916f-7c258da38993)
Chapter 30 (#ulink_f969db64-a6c3-5e6a-9af6-f52b31ce8498)
Chapter 31 (#ulink_645aad00-5e2f-5281-8121-d3bb15e39149)
Chapter 32 (#ulink_db4c61f8-fcb8-5f6d-9fe6-fb11b38bf70c)
Chapter 33 (#ulink_5487399d-3a9a-5164-a51b-7468ae3455dd)
Chapter 34 (#ulink_31569f51-22d3-5e00-822a-0c6ea0031c73)
Chapter 35 (#ulink_7817a728-4f51-584b-8c49-006e03994807)
Chapter 36 (#ulink_52b99175-f711-5eb8-b1e3-9ce029c55ba0)
Chapter 37 (#ulink_878f262d-ca7b-5d09-96ec-85372add4b0f)
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geek/gi:k/h noun informal, chiefly N. Amer.
1 an unfashionable or socially inept person.
2 an obsessive enthusiast.
3 a person who feels the need to look up the word ‘geek’ in the dictionary.
DERIVATIVES geeky adjective.
ORIGIN from the related English dialect word geck ‘fool’.
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y name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek.
I know I’m a geek because I’ve just looked it up in the Oxford English Dictionary. I drew a little tick next to all the symptoms I recognise, and I appear to have them all. Which – and I should be perfectly honest here – hasn’t come as an enormous surprise. The fact that I have an Oxford English Dictionary on my bedside table anyway should have been one clue. That I keep a Natural History Museum pencil and ruler next to it so that I can neatly underline interesting entries should have been another.
Oh, and then there’s the word GEEK, drawn in red marker pen on the outside pocket of my school satchel. That was done yesterday.
I didn’t do it, obviously. If I did decide to deface my own property, I’d choose a poignant line from a really good book, or an interesting fact not many people know. And I definitely wouldn’t do it in red. I’d do it in black, or blue, or perhaps green. I’m not a big fan of the colour red, even if it is the longest wavelength of light discernible by the human eye.
To be absolutely candid with you, I don’t actually know who decided to write on my bag – although I have my suspicions – but I can tell you that their writing is almost illegible. They clearly weren’t listening during our English lesson last week when we were told that handwriting is a very important Expression of the Self. Which is quite lucky because if I can just find a similar shade of pen, I might be able to slip in the letter R in between G and E. I can pretend that it’s a reference to my interest in ancient history and feta cheese.
I prefer Cheddar, but nobody has to know that.
Anyway, the point is: as my satchel, the anonymous vandal and the Oxford English Dictionary appear to agree with each other, I can only conclude that I am, in fact, a geek.
