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 powerful beating center 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 role at Crazi-Cheep, her cynical method of customer support makes headlines. after which there is the small topic of the remainder of her existence, that is quick falling aside: her absent father turns up all of sudden and needs to 'talk'; her mom, The refrigerator, is preserving secrets and techniques; and her new ally, Vanessa, is hiding anything terrible. Fearing the worst for her friends and family, Calma understands the one definite technique 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 enterprise with Kiffo and the Pitbull
'This is the easiest youngster fiction i've got learn in years. Barry Jonsberg's first novel is an absolute rebellion. As hilarious because it is poignant, The entire company with Kiffo and the Pitbull will be on each year-10 syllabus within the kingdom. 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 browse 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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Her eyes skimmed the ceiling and probed the dark recesses under the couch. It was like cornering a wild jungle beast. ‘Hello, Calma,’ she said finally. ’ And she scuttled off, possibly to cower in the corner of the garden or maybe do a little ironing. Mrs Aldrick kept a tidy place. Even the cockies wiped their feet before they came into her house. Vanessa was sitting up in bed, in the lotus position, her wrists balanced delicately on her knees, fingers making an O. Her eyes were closed in an annoying, ‘I’m so relaxed, even the corners of my eyes don’t crinkle when they’re shut’, fashion.
True, my happiness was dented slightly by the old lady ramming me with the trolley again in exactly the same place, but I no longer felt the urge to viciously strike her to the floor. ‘I’m so sorry,’ she said again. ’ But there was no real anger in my voice. I left her happily poring over the merits of strawberry-flavoured rough-riders and limped back to the baked beans. ’ I tell you, it’s an occupational hazard when you’re a shelf-stacker. People sneak up on you. If I’m ever going to pursue a career as a serial killer, then I’ll specialise in supermarket employees.
I finally finished my little tale, giving prominence to Jason’s physical attractiveness, and waited for Vanessa’s response. I didn’t know what to expect. Vanessa had never shown any interest in boys and I didn’t know if this was to conserve energy or because she genuinely didn’t like them. The most reaction I had ever seen was when she curled a lip fractionally at the footy-kicking drongos in the schoolyard. But where she stood on the issue of boy–girl romantic entanglements – it was a closed book.