The Taming of the Tights (Misadventures of Tallulah Casey)
Fifteen-year-old Tallulah boards with a benignly strange village family while attending an artsy college (British high school) neighboring a school for &#x201C;bad boys.&#x201D; At school, Lullah&#x2019;s gal group is known as the Tree Sisters, because they make their (usually group) assignations with the lads from the neighboring school at a post in the woods between institutions. The younger cousin of Georgia&#x2014;who has her own series, kicked off in Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging (2000)&#x2014;Lullah works here to combine Georgia&#x2019;s romantic insights, her own attraction to Charlie, and her distraction with village Lothario Cain, all while staying on as good a side as she can with her school&#x2019;s owlish headmistress. Third in the (Mis)Adventures of Tallulah Casey series (after Withering Tights, 2011), this very British teen chick lit will find its most welcome audience among Georgia fans. A lot of small events happen, strung together with Lullah&#x2019;s lists, obsessive worrying, and, though not very thoroughly realized in print, silly dancing. Grades 7-10. --Francisca Goldsmith