Just Another London Girl

By Jazza the Crabb

Effie Grinham is an ordinary teenager. Completely.
She went to school in the morning as usual, hung out with friends like every day, swooned about boys and talked about annoying teachers behind their backs.
She got back to her house in north London as normal, had an ordinary dinner with her mum, older sister and Connor - her mum ́s man (she doesn’t like to call him her step-dad, which is understandable, seeing he goes on nag-nag-nagging all day long about all sorts of pointless things).
She begged her mum a bit for a new mobile phone and some pocket money, just a little bit, for the shopping spree organized by her BFF ́s on Saturday that she simply cannot miss.
Connor told her to do her homework instead of being lazy, sitting on the sofa all afternoon.
It was such an average day.
Until she accidentally found something by the door that nobody else seemed to notice before, and found herself opening a letter from someone who is most probably dead...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kids'n'Go Editions
• Release date: Jul 2, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301712045

Jazza the Crabb

Hey my awesome readers! My name’s Jasmina (a.k.a. Jazza), I’m 14, and a proud traveler.I was born in the north of Poland, lived there for ages (6 years precisely), and then, against my will, moved to the noisy London. After a month or so of not speaking (I was too scared I’d make a mistake) I finally fit in and another 6 years passed. I made some wonderful friends then which I still love nowadays and totally do not regret moving countries.You see, I was just casually minding my own business one day when my mum had made yet another decision. We were gonna move, AGAIN. To SPAIN. Why!?!?As you might have guessed, I wasn’t very happy. And my friends were planning on murdering me for this. But after a while I got used to the lovely sun-all-year-round weather in a small town near Malaga.I traveled all over Europe with my dad, stepmom and little bro. In about two months we have ticked Italy and Greece off our list of places. Daddy decided to stay in Greece for a while, so that’s just great (no, I'm not being sarcastic). Greece isn’t as bad as they say, I figured.Yeah, so here I am now, not going to school at all, studying 2 hours a day ONLY. Cool, huh? I definitely think so. It’s called ‘Home Education’, and both my bro and I don’t have to go to school where we’d normally get bored to death.In my free time I write. Oh, and I also write, write and write. Other times I write or write. Mostly from the point of view of girls my age. Whatever pops into my head usually turns into a great story!Hope you enjoy reading my books!Jazzaxoxop.s. Hey, why not check out our blogs? Kids’n’Go is all about home schooling on the go, so if you’re interested, go ahead and google it up! www.kidsngo.org is the address, just so you know :)p.s.2 Read my own blog here - www.jazzathecrabb.blogspot.com

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From the Author

Hey my awesome readers! My name’s Jasmina (a.k.a. Jazza), I’m 14, and a proud traveller.

I was born in the north of Poland, lived there for ages (6 years precisely), and then, against my will, moved to the noisy London. After a month or so of not speaking (I was too scared I’d make a mistake) I finally fit in and another 6 years passed. I made some wonderful friends then which I still love nowadays and totally do not regret moving countries.

You see, I was just casually minding my own business one day when my mum had made yet another decision. We were gonna move, AGAIN. To SPAIN. Why!?!? As you might have guessed, I wasn’t very happy. And my friends were planning on murdering me for this. But after a while I got used to the lovely sun-all-year-round weather in a small town near Malaga.

I travelled all over Europe with my dad, stepmom and little bro. In about two months we have ticked Italy and Greece off our list of places. Daddy decided to stay in Greece for a while, so that’s just great (no, I'm not being sarcastic). Greece isn’t as bad as they say, I figured.

Yeah, so here I am now, not going to school at all, studying 2 hours a day ONLY. Cool, huh? I definitely think so. It’s called ‘Home Education’, and both my bro and I don’t have to go to school where we’d normally get bored to death. In my free time I write. Oh, and I also write, write and write. Other times I write or write. Mostly from the point of view of girls my age. Whatever pops into my head usually turns into a great story!

Hope you enjoy reading this book!

Jazza the Crabb

xoxo

p.s. Hey, why not check out our blogs? The Kids’n’Go website is all about home schooling on the go, so if you’re interested, go ahead and google it up!

p.s.2 My own blog is here - http://www.jazzathecrabb.blogspot.com

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Just Another London Girl…

This diary contains TOP SECRET information about…

Friendships

Boyfriends

Breaking up and making up

Kissing

Annoying little kids

Moody siblings

My cute pets

Cool holidays

Etc…

… None of which should interest you, so SHUT THIS BOOK NOW!!!!!

Okay, I know you’re curious about my amazing life, but you better GET LOST before Ninja Hamster Muffy will scare the guts outta you!!!!!

I patrol these premises at all times, so don’t even bother TRYING to read on, cuz I’ll probably catch you on this page. Actually, you might want to turn around, just to make sure I'm not standing behind you right now!!! MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!

About Me…

My name’s Effrah Grinham (I KNOW, I have a horrible name!!), Effie for short. I am 13 years, 2 months, and 17 days old. I live in London, Golders Green at the moment. I like it here; there are lots of cool shops.

I have terribly long, black hair, which is IMPOSSIBLE to brush. My eyes are brown, and I have to wear glasses… grrr…

Introducing…

My mum – Nathalie Grinham. Age: ancient (nearly 39!!!). She’s really pretty; I wish I looked more like her…

My dad – Diego Grinham. He died before I was born (sob, sob). He was really cool (apparently), though. He was from Argentina, which gives me this really pretty Spanish look (yay!). Mum met him when she was on holiday, they fell in love, he moved in with her, blah, blah, blah… He died in a car accident when he was 27, Kyra was 3 then (she’s always on about how he died suddenly, she never saw him again, and there wasn’t even a funeral apparently), and so he would be around 40-ish now, if he was still alive. I do not own a picture of him and have no idea what he looks like so cannot draw him :(

My sister – Kyra Grinham. Age: 16. She HATES me. I think. Well, she certainly acts like it!!! She’s got short black hair and does NOT have to wear glasses, unlike me… grrr… and she wears loads of make-up (she looks like Snow White with that amount of powder!) We go to the same school, but next year she’ll be leaving for college (yay!).

Mum’s boyfriend – Connor (unknown surname). This really annoying guy nags me on about cleaning my room every day, feeding Muffin, doing my chores, doing my homework… Urgh!!!

Ketia Raven – my bestie. We’ve known each other for almost 9 years now. She’s in my class (thank God!!!).

And not forgetting Muffin – my hamster. He lives in a big cage in my room. You might be wondering why it’s pink. Well, it's because we thought Muffy is a girl until 2 weeks later the vet told us he isn’t. And it was too late to return the cage :)

My Diary

Finally I’ve got my own private diary!!!! Well, obviously it’s not my first diary, but before my mum used to buy me them and she’d always find them and read whatever I put in there. What kind of parent does that!? And now I’ve brought one without her knowledge, so she’ll have no way of reading it. And I’m gonna hide it under the loose floorboard in my room. I’m proud of myself!

Wednesday

4:15pm - I’ve just come back from school. I’m late because Ms. Matthews kept us behind, cuz this boy Chris was writing on the table. She always does that – keeps us all behind if one person’s bad. Urgh!

I haven’t had dinner yet, and there’s no one at home. I'm starving!!! I could eat up a whole elephant!!! Or a giraffe!! Actually, a whole zoo!!! It’s cuz I’ve had no lunch at school – I borrowed Ketia 50p for a drink, so I didn’t have enough to buy a whole meal. And then Josie was nice enough to get me a box of French fries. But I'm still hungry.

I’ll go and see what’s in the fridge…

4:36pm - There was pizza!!!! Yummy!!! I put 2 slices in the oven a gobbled it all up. I don’t care if I get in trouble. Well, obviously my mum won’t get me in trouble, she never ever does, but Connor will. He always gets some excuse to get me in trouble. Well, he’s ok at times, but mostly he just nags.

5:00 – mum’s back. I told her about the pizza. She said it’s ok. I told ya! She’ll never be mad at me. Even if burnt the house down. Or something...

5:25 – Ketia just phoned, she wanted to know if I’m going Dance Club tonight. I totally forgot!!! I was asked to join the club in the middle of a dance lesson last week. Because the teacher thinks I'm amazing… lol. I don’t even like dancing that much! But I told her I’ll go as soon as my mum lets me. She said I could. But then Connor interrupted and said I’m not going anywhere until I finish all my homework. ‘But it will take me the whole night to finish everything! Cant I just do like half and I’ll do the rest tomorrow?’