Almost Fabulous

258 Pages·2016·2.6 MB·English

by  Radford Michelle

ALMOST FABULOUS

Michelle Radford
For Thomas and Gracie
Contents

Prologue
Not that I’m some kind of total Predictable
Routine Freak… 1
Chapter 1
Just like every morning, I scan the newspapers
online, which… 3
Chapter 2
“I think you worry too much,” Best Friend Gina tells… 16
Chapter 3
SOME SYMPTOMS THAT MAY BE CAUSED
BY A POSSIBLE BRAIN… 29
Chapter 4
PERSONAL STUFF I KNOW ABOUT MUM’S WB 47
Chapter 5
Daphne Kat can sense my ESP! 64
Chapter 6
My ESP is absolutely no use in helping me decide… 81
Chapter 7
FACTS ABOUT ESP 88
Chapter 8
“Are you going to mention you-know-who
to your mum?” Gina… 104
Chapter 9
Peaceflower arrived at school with her acoustic guitar
this morning… 116
Chapter 10
On Saturday, after having a strange dream I cannot even… 122
Chapter 11
Wednesday’s word of the day in Theory
of Knowledge class… 138
Chapter 12
THINGS I WOULD DO WITH ESP IF POSSIBLE: 150
Chapter 13
I can’t believe I’m going to meet my
possible-very-probable father!… 167
Chapter 14
“Fiona has a boyfriend,” Mum sing-songs to me as she… 185
Chapter 15
Joe and I e-mailed practically the whole weekend.
He started… 191
Chapter 16
After detention, I know what I have to do. I… 200
Chapter 17
By Friday I am still the Fiona Phenomenon! Will this… 210
Chapter 18
You know, there comes a time when a girl has… 219
Chapter 19
I am still trying to feel like a hot, empowered,… 227
Chapter 20
When I climb up onto the podium in the gymnasium… 240
About the Author
Credits
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher

ot that I’m some kind of total Predictable Routine Freak
or anything, but I figure that with my mum moving us
every year or so until I was eleven I’ve had enough change
and chaos in my fourteen years of life to last until I’m, oh, at
least a hundred and fifty.
Sadly today when I climb out of bed at six to begin my
Predictable Routine I have no inkling, none whatsoever, that
Predictable is about to fly out the window and my life will
never be the same again.

ust like every morning, I scan the newspapers online,
which is no more depressing than usual as they’re
always full of either global warming, or murders, or natu­
ral disasters, or drug barons and gangland wars, and then I
switch to the financial reports to cheer myself up because
these are the parts I like best.
And if I find something that really interests me, like this
one about Funktech, an American company that makes
really cool electronic stuff, I print out the information
so that I can either add it to my information dossier or
research it later.
I know. I’m not your usual fourteen-year-old.
But today I don’t put this particular article away for later,
I read it right now because I’m getting a little prickle at the
back of my neck. Just a little tingly kind of feeling. And as
I read that Funktech has recently expanded into Britain, in