Head Over Heels (Geek Girl, Book 5)

By Author / Illustrator

Holly Smale

Genre

Adventure

Age range(s)

11+

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

ISBN

9780007574629

Format

Hardback

Published

07-04-2016

Synopsis

\"My name is Harriet Manners, and I will always be a geek.\"

The fifth book in the bestselling, award-winning GEEK GIRL series.

Harriet Manners knows almost every fact there is.

She knows duck-billed platypuses don't have stomachs.
She knows that fourteen squirrels were once detained as spies.
She knows that both chess and snakes and ladders were invented in the same country.

And for once, Harriet knows exactly how her life should go. She's got it ALL planned out. So her friends seem less than happy, Harriet is determined to Make Things Happen!
If only everyone else would stick to the script...

But is following the rules going to break hearts for GEEK GIRL?

Reviews

Harriet Manners is back with a fresh set of problems and a fresh set of lists and bizzare facts. In her own unique way she sets about helping Wilbur with his bankruptcy problems, her dad with his jobless situation, the tooth-achingly cute Japanese Rin with her love life and all her friends to be happy. Many colour-coded binders and plans later, after much sneaking about and lying to her step-mum, Annabel, she manages to complicate everyone's lives beyond recognition. In the usual Geek Girl style, she ends up having the most tremendous adventures and mishaps along the way. She plays her historical heroine Queen Elizabeth I for a day and has a whirlwind secret and near-fatal trip to India. She gets to know her baby sister Tabitha better, cuddles an elephant and falls flat on her face in front of the most important people at Vogue. With the unflinching love and support from her friends almost everything turns out for the best in the end, mostly in spite of rather than because of her meddling. She even starts to dare to love again after her last romance. Very funny, with a great supporting cast of colourful characters, with foreign travel, romance and many misunderstandings and mishaps it should appeal to any young teenage girl. While you could read it without reading the others first, this is the fifth book in a series that still has plenty of life in it. 446 pages / Ages 11+ / Reviewed by Melanie Chadwick, school libarian.