Twelve-year-old Kate is appalled and embarrassed when her Mum announces that she's pregnant. And then it turns out that she is having twins! Unfortunately Kate's preoccupation with the subject not only results in all sorts of family squabbles but also causes hiccups in her growing friendship with Chas...A perceptive and funny story about some of the hassles of growing up. My Mum and Other Horror Stories was shortlisted for the Birmingham Cable Children's Book Award: 'Meg Harper is brilliant on the agonies of early adolescence, the fear of bullying and that tricky time in a young girl's life when boys are no longer just friends but, gulp, The Opposite Sex.' The Northern Echo
This is Book 1 in the My Mum... Series. See all My Mum... books here.
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Meg Harper was a contributor to My Kind of School, the A&C Black short story anthology edited by Tony Bradman, and has written the humorous My Mum series, published by Lion.
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