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Sunny Side Up
Holly Smale
“My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek.”A brand new summer story from the no. 1 bestselling and award-winning GEEK GIRL series!Harriet Manners knows many facts.And she knows everything there is to know about Paris… except what to do when you’re the hottest new model at Fashion Week.Can Harriet find her je ne sais quoi or will it be sacré bleu! on the runway?Find out in this hilarious summer special GEEK GIRL novella from the no. 1 bestselling author Holly Smale.
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2016
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Copyright © Holly Smale 2016
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Cover typography © Mary Kate McDevitt;
Cover design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2016
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Source ISBN: 9780008163457
Ebook Edition © 2016 ISBN: 9780008165642
Version: 2016-05-26
Some glittering reviews for the
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“Funny, original and this year’s must-read for teenage girls” Sun
“You won’t be going anywhere until this short-and-sweet book is complete and hugged to your chest” Maximum Pop
“A funny, light-hearted read that teenage girls will relate to” Sunday Independent
“Great … One to snuggle up with and enjoy!” Shout
“A funny, feel-good read for the holidays” The Times
“Smart, sassy and very funny” Bookseller
For Helen, Kate and Lizzie. Without whom none of this would exist.
Contents
Cover (#u9daebe4e-faae-5cd2-bd8a-eafc73a4bad3)
Title Page (#u37b20c69-caa4-594b-ac06-995dc83894b4)
Copyright
Praise for Geek Girl Books
Dedication (#ueb321ce3-1960-5df3-8d5b-6242c077b5ac)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Acknowledgements
Read on to see Harriet through Nick’s eyes – the very first time they met …
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About the Publisher
Light (noun, adjective, verb)
/1ʌɪt/
1 To make things visible or afford illumination
2 To set on fire
3 Pale or not deep in colour
4 Without weight
ORIGIN From the Old English leoht – light, shining or bright
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y name is Harriet Manners and I am hyper.
Genki is a Japanese word that means high energy, full of beans or peppy, and I know it fits me perfectly because I haven’t slept properly in six whole days.
Frankly, I haven’t needed to.
I’m so super-charged, I’m basically a worker ant: grabbing hundreds of tiny minute-long power naps just to keep me performing as normal.
Trust me: I’ve got the data.
Thanks to the awesome new Sleep App on my phone, I’ve been able to track my nocturnal activities in detail. Statistically the average teenager needs 8.5 hours of decent rest per night, but – according to my sleep graphs – my deep sleep states have been dropping steadily for the last 144.3 hours.
Last night, in fact, I officially got no hours of proper sleep at all.
Not a single wink, let alone forty.
So it’s pretty lucky that today I am firing on all cylinders. Giraffes can go weeks without napping, and I can only assume that I must be able to do the same now too.
Seriously: I am buzzing.
“And,” I continue, stabbing a finger at the magazine in front of me, “it says here that the tunnel includes six thousand tonnes of railway tracks, which is the same weight as two thousand elephants!Isn’t that cool?”
I blink at buildings rushing past the window.
“At its deepest point, it runs seventy-five metres below sea level, which is the same as 107 baguettes on top of each other! Crazy, huh?”
Frowning, I click my biro rapidly in and out again with tiny snaps and make a little note next to this fact. “How many fish could you get into that space, do you think? Should I try and calculate it?”
“Oooh!” I add before anyone can answer, pointing at a squat bird on a wire. “French pigeon!”
It’s been a pretty exciting journey already.
Eleven in the morning, having departed London just two hours ago, and I’ve already completed three Sudoku puzzles, learnt three new foreign phrases and filled out my entire crossword book in pen. I didn’t even bother pencilling it in first: that’s how fired-up I’m feeling.
“Plus,” I say, my jiggling leg bumping up and down repeatedly, “did you know that the Channel Tunnel is the longest under-sea tunnel in the world? Doesn’t that just completely blow your—”
