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GEEK GIRL Holly Smale ABOUT THE BOOK “My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek.” Harriet Manners knows that the hottest observed place on earth is Furnace Creek in Death Valley. She knows that dolphins shed the top layer of their skin every two hours. And she knows just how badly auditions can go, especially when you’re a model. But she has no idea what to do when her arch-nemesis decides the school play is the perfect opportunity to humiliate her… Can Geek Girl survive the bright lights of the stage? ABOUT THE AUTHOR Holly Smale is the author of Geek Girl, Model Misfit and Picture Perfect. She was unexpectedly spotted by a top London modelling agency at the age of fifteen and spent the following two years falling over on catwalks, going bright red and breaking things she couldn’t afford to replace. By the time Holly had graduated from Bristol University with a BA in English Literature and an MA in Shakespeare she had given up modelling and set herself on the path to becoming a writer. Geek Girl was the no. 1 bestselling young adult fiction title in the UK in 2013. It was shortlisted for several major awards including the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Branford Boase award, nominated for the Queen of Teen award and won the teen and young adult category of the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize and the 11-14 category of the Leeds Book Award. Holly is currently writing the fourth book in the Geek Girl series. KEEP UP WITH HOLLY ONLINE: /geekgirlseries @HolSmale holsmale.wix.com/the-write-girl2 Pupils can swap their £1 book token for one of ten exclusive World Book Day £1 books, or use it to get £1 off any full-priced book or audio book.* Tokens must be redeemed between 2–29 March 2015. *€1.50 in Ireland. AGE 12+ More books by Holly Smale Download and print a list of books by Holly Smale from WORLDBOOKDAY. COM/TEACHERS-TOOLKIT (HARPERCOLLINS) Find out more and register at Be a part of 2015’S BIGGEST BOOKS PARTY! Join bestselling authors, illustrators and celebs, including Holly Smale for two nights of books, chat, comps & more. Discover more £1 Books at WORLDBOOKDAY.COM/BOOKS

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GEEK GIRL Holly Smale

ABOUT THE BOOK“My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek.”

Harriet Manners knows that the hottest observed place on earth is Furnace Creek in Death Valley. She knows that dolphins shed the top layer of their skin every two hours. And she knows just how badly auditions can go, especially when you’re a model. But she has no idea what to do when her arch-nemesis decides the school play is the perfect opportunity to humiliate her…

Can Geek Girl survive the bright lights of the stage?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Holly Smale is the author of Geek Girl, Model Misfit and Picture Perfect. She was unexpectedly spotted by a top London modelling agency at the age of fifteen and spent the following two years falling over on catwalks, going bright red and breaking things she couldn’t afford to replace. By the time Holly had graduated from Bristol University with a BA in English Literature and an MA in Shakespeare she had given up modelling and set herself on the path to becoming a writer.

Geek Girl was the no. 1 bestselling young adult fiction title in the UK in 2013. It was shortlisted for several major awards including the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Branford Boase award, nominated for the Queen of Teen award and won the teen and young adult category of the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize and the 11-14 category of the Leeds Book Award. Holly is currently writing the fourth book in the Geek Girl series.

KEEP UP WITH HOLLY ONLINE: /geekgirlseries @HolSmale holsmale.wix.com/the-write-girl2

Pupils can swap their £1 book token for one of ten exclusive World Book Day £1 books, or use it to get £1 off any full-priced book or audio book.*

Tokens must be redeemed between 2–29 March 2015. *€1.50 in Ireland.

AGE12+

More books by

HollySmale

Download and print a list of books by Holly Smale from WORLDBOOKDAY.COM/TEACHERS-TOOLKIT

(HARPERCOLLINS)

Find out more and register at

Be a part of 2015’S BIGGEST BOOKS PARTY! Join bestselling authors, illustrators and

celebs, including Holly Smale for two nights of books, chat, comps & more.

Discover more £1 Books at WORLDBOOKDAY.COM/BOOKS