• Age: 9 to 12
• Grade: 4 to 7

Booky is turning thirteen and life is ever-changing! Once again, she counts on her humour and wit to help her survive the growing pains.

The irrepressible Booky is back! She's growing up and getting into more scrapes than ever — sneaking into a show, telling ghost stories to scare the daylights out of little kids, getting fired from her first babysitting job, and more. It's also a year of firsts for her: first pair of shorts(!), first crush, first date, and her first experience with death. And to top it off, money is still tight and her parents still argue. How will she survive the growing pains?

As always there is the warm side of Booky, the side that cherishes her grandfather and her Aunt Aggie—the Booky that will hold her family together even through the hardest times.

Bernice Thurman Hunter was born in 1922. She spent her adult years as an Eaton's employee, and did not publish her first book, That Scatterbrain Booky, until 1981, when she was a grandmother. She went on to write many more highly acclaimed historical novels: two more in the Booky series, and the equally successful margaret series. She received the 1989 Vicky Metcalk Award for her body of work, and was made a Member of the Order of Canada shortly before her death in 2002.

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