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* ICallHimMisterHappy: Jess' breasts are named Bonnie and Clyde. She gives them pep talks.
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%% * WithFriendsLikeThese: Surprisingly enough, ''Jess'' to Flora, not the other way around. [[spoiler: It's all in Jess' Jess's mind and motivated by jealousy, but in the second book she spends a lot of it wondering if Flora secretly hatched a plan to go to Riverdene with Fred, accidentally gets Flora thrown out of the play in "Pants on Fire" and often has an ImagineSpot of something unfortunate happening to Flora. Then again, Flora IS a bit of an AttentionWhore and did have a crush on Fred for a while.]]
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* ACupAngst: So severe that when she attends a party, Jess [[spoiler: stuffs her bra with minestrone soup]]. Hilarity ensues.
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* ACupAngst: So Jess is anxious about her small breasts. It's so severe that when she attends a party, Jess [[spoiler: stuffs her bra with minestrone soup]]. Hilarity ensues.
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* AttentionWhore: Flora, particularly in front of boys.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Jess.
* BerserkButton: Don't call Mackenzie short.
* BettyAndVeronica: A gender-flipped version; Fred is the Betty, Ben is the Veronica.
* BrainlessBeauty: Ben. Subverted with Flora, who is very smart ''and'' pretty.
* BrilliantButLazy: Jess is actually quite clever, but mostly uses her wit for comedy purposes, and her history tracher gives her a lengthy lecture at the start of the first book about her underachieving ways.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Jess.
* BerserkButton: Don't call Mackenzie short.
* BettyAndVeronica: A gender-flipped version; Fred is the Betty, Ben is the Veronica.
* BrainlessBeauty: Ben. Subverted with Flora, who is very smart ''and'' pretty.
* BrilliantButLazy: Jess is actually quite clever, but mostly uses her wit for comedy purposes, and her history tracher gives her a lengthy lecture at the start of the first book about her underachieving ways.
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%% * AttentionWhore: Flora, particularly in front of boys.
%% * BeautifulAllAlong: Jess.
%% * BerserkButton: Don't call Mackenzie short.
%% * BettyAndVeronica: A gender-flipped version; Fred is the Betty, Ben is the Veronica.
%% * BrainlessBeauty: Ben. Subverted with Flora, who is very smart ''and'' pretty.
* BrilliantButLazy: Jess is actually quite clever, but mostly uses her wit for comedy purposes, and her historytracher teacher gives her a lengthy lecture at the start of the first book about her underachieving ways.
%% * BeautifulAllAlong: Jess.
%% * BerserkButton: Don't call Mackenzie short.
%% * BettyAndVeronica: A gender-flipped version; Fred is the Betty, Ben is the Veronica.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Jess is actually quite clever, but mostly uses her wit for comedy purposes, and her history
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* CloudCuckoolander: Jess, Fred and Granny.
* CompanionCube: Jess' teddybear, Rasputin.
* ControlFreak: Mackenzie turns out to be this. [[spoiler: It's why Flora dumps him.]]
** Hinted with Flora's dad.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Mackenzie for Flora.
* CuteAndPsycho: A minor example with Jess' Granny, who is a sweet old lady who happens to enjoy films like Crocodile Dundee or Pulp Fiction and seems to be a bit fixated on death and carnage.
* CuteButCacophonic: Flore is decribed as incredibly pretty, but she can't sing to save her life. Which makes it hilarious that she's the lead singer of the garage band with Ben and Mackenzie.
* DumbBlonde: Averted with Flora.
** Also averted with Ben- he's BookDumb and tends to speak very slowly, but he's not stupid.
* CompanionCube: Jess' teddybear, Rasputin.
* ControlFreak: Mackenzie turns out to be this. [[spoiler: It's why Flora dumps him.]]
** Hinted with Flora's dad.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Mackenzie for Flora.
* CuteAndPsycho: A minor example with Jess' Granny, who is a sweet old lady who happens to enjoy films like Crocodile Dundee or Pulp Fiction and seems to be a bit fixated on death and carnage.
* CuteButCacophonic: Flore is decribed as incredibly pretty, but she can't sing to save her life. Which makes it hilarious that she's the lead singer of the garage band with Ben and Mackenzie.
* DumbBlonde: Averted with Flora.
** Also averted with Ben- he's BookDumb and tends to speak very slowly, but he's not stupid.
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%% * CompanionCube: Jess' teddybear, Rasputin.
%% * ControlFreak: Mackenzie turns out to be this. [[spoiler: It's why Flora dumps him.]]
%% ** Hinted with Flora's dad.
%% * CrazyJealousGuy: Mackenzie for Flora.
*CuteAndPsycho: A minor example with Jess' Granny, who is a sweet old lady who happens to enjoy films like Crocodile Dundee or Pulp Fiction and seems to be a bit fixated on death and carnage.
*CuteButCacophonic: Flore is decribed described as incredibly pretty, but she can't sing to save her life. Which makes it hilarious that she's the lead singer of the garage band with Ben and Mackenzie.
* DumbBlonde: Averted with Flora.
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%% ** Hinted with Flora's dad.
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* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Everyone in Flora's family is blonde. Even the dog.
* FakeBoobs: See above.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Granny.
* FakeBoobs: See above.
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* IncompatibleOrientation: Jess blames this when [[spoiler: Ben loses interest]].
** Also [[spoiler: her parents have this; her dad is gay.]]
* JustFriends: Jess treats Fred like this, while constantly complaining to him about her "boy troubles" with Brad.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Flora.
* LoveTriangle: Ben/Jess/Fred.
* TheNapoleon: Mackenzie.
* TheReveal: Happens in ''Absolute Torture'', [[spoiler: The reason Jess's parents split up? Her dad is gay.]]
* RunningGag: Jess' body hang-ups, particularly her arse and her eyebrows.
* TheQuietOne: Ben Jones.
* SternTeacher: Miss Thorn in "Pants on Fire".
* SweetTooth: Flora.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Jess's mum knows the video she has in the first book isn't a copy of the Twelfth Night, because she can see it sticking out of Jess's schoolbag.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Fred [[spoiler: until the end]].
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Jess spends a lot of the first novel wondering if Flora fancies Ben. She's wrong- Flora fancies Fred. Fred, however, likes Jess.]]
** [[spoiler: In the first book, Jess has a crush on Ben for a large portion. In ''Pants on Fire'', it's hinted that Ben might have developed a crush on ''her''.]]
* VerbalTic: Granny has "Dear".
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Jess calls out Fred at the end of ''Pants on Fire'' for suggesting they keep their relationship a secret from everyone and pretend they're deadly enemies.]]
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Surprisingly enough, ''Jess'' has shades of this to Flora, not the other way around. [[spoiler: It's pretty much all in Jess' mind and motivated by jealousy, but in the second book she spends a lot of it wondering if Flora secretly hatched a plan to go to Riverdene with Fred, accidentally gets Flora thrown out of the play in "Pants on Fire" and often has an ImagineSpot of something unfortunate happening to Flora. Then again, Flora IS a bit of an AttentionWhore and did have a crush on Fred for a while.]]
** Also [[spoiler: her parents have this; her dad is gay.]]
* JustFriends: Jess treats Fred like this, while constantly complaining to him about her "boy troubles" with Brad.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Flora.
* LoveTriangle: Ben/Jess/Fred.
* TheNapoleon: Mackenzie.
* TheReveal: Happens in ''Absolute Torture'', [[spoiler: The reason Jess's parents split up? Her dad is gay.]]
* RunningGag: Jess' body hang-ups, particularly her arse and her eyebrows.
* TheQuietOne: Ben Jones.
* SternTeacher: Miss Thorn in "Pants on Fire".
* SweetTooth: Flora.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Jess's mum knows the video she has in the first book isn't a copy of the Twelfth Night, because she can see it sticking out of Jess's schoolbag.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Fred [[spoiler: until the end]].
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Jess spends a lot of the first novel wondering if Flora fancies Ben. She's wrong- Flora fancies Fred. Fred, however, likes Jess.]]
** [[spoiler: In the first book, Jess has a crush on Ben for a large portion. In ''Pants on Fire'', it's hinted that Ben might have developed a crush on ''her''.]]
* VerbalTic: Granny has "Dear".
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Jess calls out Fred at the end of ''Pants on Fire'' for suggesting they keep their relationship a secret from everyone and pretend they're deadly enemies.]]
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Surprisingly enough, ''Jess'' has shades of this to Flora, not the other way around. [[spoiler: It's pretty much all in Jess' mind and motivated by jealousy, but in the second book she spends a lot of it wondering if Flora secretly hatched a plan to go to Riverdene with Fred, accidentally gets Flora thrown out of the play in "Pants on Fire" and often has an ImagineSpot of something unfortunate happening to Flora. Then again, Flora IS a bit of an AttentionWhore and did have a crush on Fred for a while.]]
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%% ** Also [[spoiler: her parents have this; her dad is gay.]]
%% * JustFriends: Jess treats Fred like this, while constantly complaining to him about her "boy troubles" with Brad.
%% * LovableAlphaBitch: Flora.
%% * LoveTriangle: Ben/Jess/Fred.
%% * TheNapoleon: Mackenzie.
* TheReveal: Happens in ''AbsoluteTorture'', [[spoiler: Torture''. The reason Jess's parents split up? Her [[spoiler:Her dad is gay.]]
%% * RunningGag: Jess' body hang-ups, particularly her arse and her eyebrows.
%% * TheQuietOne: Ben Jones.
%% * SternTeacher: Miss Thorn in "Pants on Fire".
%% * SweetTooth: Flora.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Jess's mum knows the video she has in the first book isn't a copy of the Twelfth Night, because she can see it sticking out of Jess's schoolbag.
%% * UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Fred [[spoiler: until the end]].
%% * UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Jess spends a lot of the first novel wondering if Flora fancies Ben. She's wrong- Flora fancies Fred. Fred, however, likes Jess.]]
%% ** [[spoiler: In the first book, Jess has a crush on Ben for a large portion. In ''Pants on Fire'', it's hinted that Ben might have developed a crush on ''her''.]]
* VerbalTic: Grannyhas overuses "Dear".
* WhatTheHellHero:[[spoiler: Jess [[spoiler:Jess calls out Fred at the end of ''Pants on Fire'' for suggesting they keep their relationship a secret from everyone and pretend they're deadly enemies.]]
%% * WithFriendsLikeThese: Surprisingly enough, ''Jess''has shades of this to Flora, not the other way around. [[spoiler: It's pretty much all in Jess' mind and motivated by jealousy, but in the second book she spends a lot of it wondering if Flora secretly hatched a plan to go to Riverdene with Fred, accidentally gets Flora thrown out of the play in "Pants on Fire" and often has an ImagineSpot of something unfortunate happening to Flora. Then again, Flora IS a bit of an AttentionWhore and did have a crush on Fred for a while.]]]]
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%% * JustFriends: Jess treats Fred like this, while constantly complaining to him about her "boy troubles" with Brad.
%% * LovableAlphaBitch: Flora.
%% * LoveTriangle: Ben/Jess/Fred.
%% * TheNapoleon: Mackenzie.
* TheReveal: Happens in ''Absolute
%% * RunningGag: Jess' body hang-ups, particularly her arse and her eyebrows.
%% * TheQuietOne: Ben Jones.
%% * SternTeacher: Miss Thorn in "Pants on Fire".
%% * SweetTooth: Flora.
%% * UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Jess spends a lot of the first novel wondering if Flora fancies Ben. She's wrong- Flora fancies Fred. Fred, however, likes Jess.]]
%% ** [[spoiler: In the first book, Jess has a crush on Ben for a large portion. In ''Pants on Fire'', it's hinted that Ben might have developed a crush on ''her''.]]
* VerbalTic: Granny
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''Girl, Fifteen, Charming But Insane'' is the most memorable title in a series of young adult books by Sue Limb. It is a British ComingOfAge series about a young girl named Jess who must struggle with ACupAngst, a LoveTriangle between a gorgeous, mysterious loner boy and her best friend. Sometimes affectionately referred to as ''Junior Bridget Jones,'' most of the plot lines revolve around romantic and endearingly embarrassing plot lines told from a teenager's perspective.
!!The series consists of the following titles.
* ''Girl, Barely Fifteen, Flirting England''
* ''Girl, Fifteen, Charming But Insane''
* ''Girl (Nearly) Sixteen, Absolute Torture''
* ''Girl, Going On Seventeen, Pants On Fire''
!!Contains examples of:
* ACupAngst: So severe that when she attends a party, Jess [[spoiler: stuffs her bra with minestrone soup]]. Hilarity ensues.
* {{Adorkable}}: Fred. Jess sometimes qualifies.
* AffectionateNickname: Flora calls Ben "BJ".
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Hinted at with Ben but it is questionable HOW bad he really is.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Jess gets sidetracked ''constantly'', usually by imagining bizarre scenarios.
* AttentionWhore: Flora, particularly in front of boys.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Jess.
* BerserkButton: Don't call Mackenzie short.
* BettyAndVeronica: A gender-flipped version; Fred is the Betty, Ben is the Veronica.
* BrainlessBeauty: Ben. Subverted with Flora, who is very smart ''and'' pretty.
* BrilliantButLazy: Jess is actually quite clever, but mostly uses her wit for comedy purposes, and her history tracher gives her a lengthy lecture at the start of the first book about her underachieving ways.
* ClingyJealousGirl: [[spoiler: Jess has a bit of this going for Fred, and he knows it, so he deliberately pretends to have lots of girls flirting with him to get her jealous, because he "likes it when she gets angry."]]
* CloudCuckoolander: Jess, Fred and Granny.
* CompanionCube: Jess' teddybear, Rasputin.
* ControlFreak: Mackenzie turns out to be this. [[spoiler: It's why Flora dumps him.]]
** Hinted with Flora's dad.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Mackenzie for Flora.
* CuteAndPsycho: A minor example with Jess' Granny, who is a sweet old lady who happens to enjoy films like Crocodile Dundee or Pulp Fiction and seems to be a bit fixated on death and carnage.
* CuteButCacophonic: Flore is decribed as incredibly pretty, but she can't sing to save her life. Which makes it hilarious that she's the lead singer of the garage band with Ben and Mackenzie.
* DumbBlonde: Averted with Flora.
** Also averted with Ben- he's BookDumb and tends to speak very slowly, but he's not stupid.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Jess' history teacher cannot pronounce her 'R's, so it's hard for her students to take her seriously.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Everyone in Flora's family is blonde. Even the dog.
* FakeBoobs: See above.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Granny.
* GreenEyedEpiphany: Jess realises [[spoiler: ''she'' likes Fred]] when Flora admits she fancies him.
* ICallHimMisterHappy: Jess' breasts are named Bonnie and Clyde. She gives them pep talks.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Jess blames this when [[spoiler: Ben loses interest]].
** Also [[spoiler: her parents have this; her dad is gay.]]
* JustFriends: Jess treats Fred like this, while constantly complaining to him about her "boy troubles" with Brad.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Flora.
* LoveTriangle: Ben/Jess/Fred.
* TheNapoleon: Mackenzie.
* TheReveal: Happens in ''Absolute Torture'', [[spoiler: The reason Jess's parents split up? Her dad is gay.]]
* RunningGag: Jess' body hang-ups, particularly her arse and her eyebrows.
* TheQuietOne: Ben Jones.
* SpoiledSweet: Flora, plus her two sisters.
* SternTeacher: Miss Thorn in "Pants on Fire".
* SweetTooth: Flora.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Jess's mum knows the video she has in the first book isn't a copy of the Twelfth Night, because she can see it sticking out of Jess's schoolbag.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Fred [[spoiler: until the end]].
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Jess spends a lot of the first novel wondering if Flora fancies Ben. She's wrong- Flora fancies Fred. Fred, however, likes Jess.]]
** [[spoiler: In the first book, Jess has a crush on Ben for a large portion. In ''Pants on Fire'', it's hinted that Ben might have developed a crush on ''her''.]]
* VerbalTic: Granny has "Dear".
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Jess calls out Fred at the end of ''Pants on Fire'' for suggesting they keep their relationship a secret from everyone and pretend they're deadly enemies.]]
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Surprisingly enough, ''Jess'' has shades of this to Flora, not the other way around. [[spoiler: It's pretty much all in Jess' mind and motivated by jealousy, but in the second book she spends a lot of it wondering if Flora secretly hatched a plan to go to Riverdene with Fred, accidentally gets Flora thrown out of the play in "Pants on Fire" and often has an ImagineSpot of something unfortunate happening to Flora. Then again, Flora IS a bit of an AttentionWhore and did have a crush on Fred for a while.]]
!!The series consists of the following titles.
* ''Girl, Barely Fifteen, Flirting England''
* ''Girl, Fifteen, Charming But Insane''
* ''Girl (Nearly) Sixteen, Absolute Torture''
* ''Girl, Going On Seventeen, Pants On Fire''
!!Contains examples of:
* ACupAngst: So severe that when she attends a party, Jess [[spoiler: stuffs her bra with minestrone soup]]. Hilarity ensues.
* {{Adorkable}}: Fred. Jess sometimes qualifies.
* AffectionateNickname: Flora calls Ben "BJ".
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Hinted at with Ben but it is questionable HOW bad he really is.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Jess gets sidetracked ''constantly'', usually by imagining bizarre scenarios.
* AttentionWhore: Flora, particularly in front of boys.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Jess.
* BerserkButton: Don't call Mackenzie short.
* BettyAndVeronica: A gender-flipped version; Fred is the Betty, Ben is the Veronica.
* BrainlessBeauty: Ben. Subverted with Flora, who is very smart ''and'' pretty.
* BrilliantButLazy: Jess is actually quite clever, but mostly uses her wit for comedy purposes, and her history tracher gives her a lengthy lecture at the start of the first book about her underachieving ways.
* ClingyJealousGirl: [[spoiler: Jess has a bit of this going for Fred, and he knows it, so he deliberately pretends to have lots of girls flirting with him to get her jealous, because he "likes it when she gets angry."]]
* CloudCuckoolander: Jess, Fred and Granny.
* CompanionCube: Jess' teddybear, Rasputin.
* ControlFreak: Mackenzie turns out to be this. [[spoiler: It's why Flora dumps him.]]
** Hinted with Flora's dad.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Mackenzie for Flora.
* CuteAndPsycho: A minor example with Jess' Granny, who is a sweet old lady who happens to enjoy films like Crocodile Dundee or Pulp Fiction and seems to be a bit fixated on death and carnage.
* CuteButCacophonic: Flore is decribed as incredibly pretty, but she can't sing to save her life. Which makes it hilarious that she's the lead singer of the garage band with Ben and Mackenzie.
* DumbBlonde: Averted with Flora.
** Also averted with Ben- he's BookDumb and tends to speak very slowly, but he's not stupid.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Jess' history teacher cannot pronounce her 'R's, so it's hard for her students to take her seriously.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Everyone in Flora's family is blonde. Even the dog.
* FakeBoobs: See above.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Granny.
* GreenEyedEpiphany: Jess realises [[spoiler: ''she'' likes Fred]] when Flora admits she fancies him.
* ICallHimMisterHappy: Jess' breasts are named Bonnie and Clyde. She gives them pep talks.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Jess blames this when [[spoiler: Ben loses interest]].
** Also [[spoiler: her parents have this; her dad is gay.]]
* JustFriends: Jess treats Fred like this, while constantly complaining to him about her "boy troubles" with Brad.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Flora.
* LoveTriangle: Ben/Jess/Fred.
* TheNapoleon: Mackenzie.
* TheReveal: Happens in ''Absolute Torture'', [[spoiler: The reason Jess's parents split up? Her dad is gay.]]
* RunningGag: Jess' body hang-ups, particularly her arse and her eyebrows.
* TheQuietOne: Ben Jones.
* SpoiledSweet: Flora, plus her two sisters.
* SternTeacher: Miss Thorn in "Pants on Fire".
* SweetTooth: Flora.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Jess's mum knows the video she has in the first book isn't a copy of the Twelfth Night, because she can see it sticking out of Jess's schoolbag.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Fred [[spoiler: until the end]].
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Jess spends a lot of the first novel wondering if Flora fancies Ben. She's wrong- Flora fancies Fred. Fred, however, likes Jess.]]
** [[spoiler: In the first book, Jess has a crush on Ben for a large portion. In ''Pants on Fire'', it's hinted that Ben might have developed a crush on ''her''.]]
* VerbalTic: Granny has "Dear".
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Jess calls out Fred at the end of ''Pants on Fire'' for suggesting they keep their relationship a secret from everyone and pretend they're deadly enemies.]]
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Surprisingly enough, ''Jess'' has shades of this to Flora, not the other way around. [[spoiler: It's pretty much all in Jess' mind and motivated by jealousy, but in the second book she spends a lot of it wondering if Flora secretly hatched a plan to go to Riverdene with Fred, accidentally gets Flora thrown out of the play in "Pants on Fire" and often has an ImagineSpot of something unfortunate happening to Flora. Then again, Flora IS a bit of an AttentionWhore and did have a crush on Fred for a while.]]
