<b><i>The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ </i>is the first book in Sue Townsend''s brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series, reissued in Penguin''s ORIGINALS collection of iconic teen fiction.</b><br><br><i>Friday January 2nd</i><br><i>I felt rotten today. It''s my mother''s fault for singing ''My Way'' at two o''clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children''s home.</i><br><br> Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. <br><br>Writing candidly about his parents'' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and ''misunderstood intellectual'', Adrian''s painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared. <br><br><b>Praise for Adrian Mole (and by extension, Sue Townsend): </b><br><br>''I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to