The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾

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The series featured a theme song "Profoundly in Love With Pandora" by Ian Dury and the Blockheads and starred Gian Sammarco as Adrian Mole with Julie Walters playing his mother and Lindsey Stagg as Pandora Braithwaite. If you haven’t read it, you really should (here’s a review by teen site member Happygirl165 on why). Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids.

The series satirises human pretensions, and especially, in the first couple of volumes, teenage pretensions. He is now a fifteen-year-old boy living in 1982 and is happy for his parents to get back together, only to suffer the embarrassment of his mother falling pregnant. He is born to lower middle class, working-class Englishmen and he lived as an only child for fifteen years before the birth of his siblings.More importantly, I believed in this characters all over again and was sad when it came to the last page.

This is all to the good; a teenager whose reaction to Animal Farm is to ponder becoming a vet (later amended to boycotting bacon) is amusing; a grown man – and father to children from various different mothers – showing such vapidity would just be sad. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. It is at this point that Adrian Mole lays down his pen, saying that “Happy people don’t keep a diary”, only to pick it up again in Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (the title taken from the fact that Adrian has problems with his prostate and, true to his nature, is chiefly annoyed by people pronouncing the word with an extraneous ‘r’) to record the fact that “it is two months and nineteen days since I made love to my wife, Daisy”. In an interview in the Guardian with Kate Kellaway in 2010, Sue said that “the only way I’ll kill Adrian is when I die myself”. And even though at the mercy of his rampant hormones and the fickle whims of the divine Pandora, a victim of a broken home and his own tortured (though unrecognised) genius, Adrian continues valiantly to chronicle the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence.In October 2009 the Leicester Mercury featured an interview with Townsend where she discussed the new Mole book and her plans for future works.

My mother found them; they were hidden under a crumb of fruitcake”) and self-evident in The Weapons of Mass Destruction.The ORIGINAL teenage diarist is back in the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny, touching and bestselling Ad. In a reversal of a typical teenager-mother relationship, Pauline berates Adrian for keeping his room "like a bloody shrine".

Much like I suspect the Harry Potter or Twilight books more recently were, Adrian Mole was read by most of my peer group so we could discuss the bits we liked the most, the observations, the funny lines, measuring our things (for those of us that had them) and generally breathe even more life into a character that was so well drawn by Ms Townsend. But problems abound when, in a fit of madness, he agrees to become a TV chef on the show Offally Good. He gets caught in the crossfire between Putin's army and the Wolves, a rogue team of Ukraine partisans. I thought the character of Adrian was rather annoying and at age 14 should at least have some understanding of finance and should start thinking of how having little finance effects everyone and not just the fact that he cant but mars bars.He thanks his father after learning that he raised him single-handedly during the first year of his life when Pauline was suffering from postpartum depression. Glenn moves in with his father and it is revealed the boy has a lot of respect for him when Adrian sees the cover of his diary. Just like many teenagers who lock themselves in their rooms writing book reviews and singing pop songs, Adrian is no different. Our Adult Fiction Books, Range includes Classics Novels, Comic Books, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Novels, General Fiction, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction and War. While he is oblivious to how self-obsessed he can be, his behavior is very common in teenagers his age.