My 11 y/o daughter picked this out and I thought I had better "preview" it. It is the funniest thing I have read in a long time! Because any particular tragedy can mean the "end of the world as we know it", plus the fact that our lovely daughters would NEVER be the "drama queen" that Georgia is, plus that the book is written by a British author with Brit slang, all add up to a GREAT BOOK. My daughter laughs out loud, looks up words in the included British-to-American glossary, and says this book is better than any TV or Video. She even took it to the POOL and read aloud to her friends!!