Jessica lives in a remote Welsh village, a place not conducive to a fourteen-year-old girl's social life. Dependent on her mobile phone and her parents' car, Jessica longs for a proper date with a real boyfriend, preferably one with wheels. Dates with a local boy go nowhere and it isn't until Jessica manages to get away from home that things start to look up on the boy front. A school choir trip to Vienna and a meeting with Mark, a member of a boy's choir, help Jessica to get her life together.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Girls .

There are 176 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2002 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .

Rosie Rushton is the award-winning author of numerous books for teenagers published by Piccadilly Press and Puffin. Her books are sold all over the world. She lives in Moulton, Northants.