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* AbuseMistake: In an example of passing off abuse as something innocent, Letty describes an incident where a man who attacked Hazel got away with it by convincing a bystander "She's my girlfriend; we're just having a row" (fighting.)
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* DustbinSchool: Letty's school, Sluggs Comprehensive, is infamously poor and kids typically go there when their parents can't or won't send them anywhere else (including Letty's parents.)
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* DustbinSchool: Letty's school, Sluggs Comprehensive, is infamously poor and kids typically go there when their parents can't or won't send them anywhere else (including Letty's parents.)) Aggy only goes there because her family is poor, and many of Letty's classmates are delinquents or have various disorders or other problems.
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* DustbinSchool: Letty's school, Sluggs Comprehensive, is infamously poor and kids typically go there when their parents can't or won't send them anywhere else (including Letty's parents.)
* MistakenIdentity: Letty initially thinks Junior is Basil, and thus doesn't realise the identity of her mysterious crush.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Basil is 22 but Letty initially thinks he's only 18 at most. Even when she first sees him at her school (it is never explained why he was there), no one else seems to notice that he isn't a student.
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* UptownGirl: Letty's mother was this for her father. At least three of Letty's own love interests (Daniel Hope, Adam Stone and Basil) are Uptown Guys.
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* UptownGirl: Letty's mother was this for her father. At least three of Letty's own love interests (Daniel Hope, Adam Stone Stone, and Basil) are Uptown Guys.
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* AerithAndBob: Letty and Ashley are both named after characters from ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'', but Benjy has a quite generic name; Letty says she and Ashley had to beg their mother not to name him Rhett. Aggy (short for Agatha) has an ordinary name but it's mentioned that several of her siblings have more unusual names such as Mandarin.
* OddNameOut: Letty and Ashley are both named after characters from ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'', but Benjy has a quite generic name; Letty says she and Ashley had to beg their mother not to name him Rhett. Aggy (short for Agatha) appears to be the only one of her family with a conventional name and her siblings all have more unusual names such as Mandarin.
* OnlyOneName: Junior, and it's not clear if this is his given name, surname, or a nickname.
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* AerithAndBob: Letty and Ashley are both named after characters from ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'', but Benjy has a quite generic name; Letty says she and Ashley had to beg their mother not to name him Rhett. Aggy (short for Agatha) has an ordinary name but it's mentioned that several of her siblings have more unusual names such as Mandarin.
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* SorryOccifer: Mention is made of the time Letty's father was pulled over for drunk driving and told the officer "I admit I've been driving but I'm perfectly fit to drink."
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* SorryOccifer: SorryOciffer: Mention is made of the time Letty's father was pulled over for drunk driving and told the officer "I admit I've been driving but I'm perfectly fit to drink."
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* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Benjy is ten years younger than Letty and thirteen years younger than their brother Ashley.
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* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: PracticallyDifferentGenerations:
** Benjy isten 10 years younger than Letty and thirteen 13 years younger than their brother Ashley.Ashley.
** Aggy, who is the same age as Letty (15) has multiple siblings under the age of five, including a baby.
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** Aggy, who is the same age as Letty (15) has multiple siblings under the age of five, including a baby.
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* BrotherChuck: Letty's friend Spiggy (Sarah Spiggott) is a major character in ''The Teenage Worrier's Guide to Lurve'' but does not reappear after this, despite the mention that their friendship was repaired.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Letty's friend Spiggy (Sarah Spiggott) is a major character in ''The Teenage Worrier's Guide to Lurve'' but does not reappear after this, despite the mention that their friendship was repaired.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Zelda, a girl in Letty's class at school, appears to have some kind of autism or learning disability (severe enough that she has a carer), although it's not stated what her condition is.
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* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Benjy is ten years younger than Letty and thirteen years younger than their brother Ashley.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Hazel's girlfriend cheats on her while temporarily living in Scotland.
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* TheMistress: It is mentioned that when Letty was a child, her father had an affair with a circus performer ("That Daring Young Girl on the Flying Trapeze") and temporarily left his family for his mistress. He eventually returned to his family and Benjy was born soon after.
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* ExactWords: When Hazel runs away from home to be with her girlfriend Mandy in Scotland, her mother (to whom Hazel hasn't come out) asks Letty if Hazel has run away because of a boy. Not wanting to tell the truth about Hazel and Mandy, Letty just says it definitely had nothing to do with a ''boy''.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Letty has a new love interest (Jack Spriggs, whom she thought was dating her friend,) has decided not to worry about her exams and things have resolved themselves for her best friends Aggy and Hazel. However, she decides she can't follow her dream of becoming a film director because she included dishonest Basil in the final cut of her film contest entry about war, at the expense of real-life refugee Josef. She also can't forgive Basil for lying to her and robbing Aggy's house]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Letty has a new love interest (Jack Spriggs, whom she thought was dating her friend,) Spriggs), has decided not to worry about her exams and things have resolved themselves for her best friends Aggy and Hazel. However, she decides she can't follow her dream of becoming a film director because she included dishonest Basil in the final cut of her film contest entry about war, at the expense of real-life refugee Josef. She also can't forgive Basil for lying to her and robbing Aggy's house]]
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Letty does not get together with either of her three major love interests: Daniel Hope [[spoiler: because she lost interest in him]], Adam Stone [[spoiler: who accused her of having another boyfriend]] or Basil Barrington [[spoiler: who turns out to be a petty criminal on the run.]]
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Letty does not get together with either of her three major love interests: Daniel Hope [[spoiler: because she lost interest in him]], who got together with Spiggy]], Adam Stone [[spoiler: who accused her of having another boyfriend]] refused to believe Letty wasn't seeing Daniel]], or Basil Barrington [[spoiler: who turns out to be a petty criminal on the run.]]
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* TheKlutz: Letty is described as very clumsy, frequently tripping over or stepping in things. When she meets Basil she is so startled she steps in a bucket of cleaning fluid and hits her head on the door.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Zelda, a girl in Letty's class at school, appears to have some kind of autism or neurological disorder (severe enough that she has a carer), although it's not stated what her condition is.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Zelda, a girl in Letty's class at school, appears to have some kind of autism or neurological disorder learning disability (severe enough that she has a carer), although it's not stated what her condition is.
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* LeftHanging: ''I Was a Teenage Worrier'' briefly mentions that Aggy's parents have recently broken up and she is upset at her father wanting his new girlfriend to move in. This is never picked up on again.
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* LeftHanging: ''I Was a Teenage Worrier'' briefly mentions that Aggy's parents have recently broken up and she is upset at her father wanting his new girlfriend to move in. This Later books mention Aggy being upset that her mother hasn't been in touch, but the potential conflict with her father's girlfriend is never picked up on again.
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* PairTheSpares: Subverted in ''Panick Diary''. Letty is happily dating Basil so when Brian, who's admired Letty for months or years, gets together with Aggy it looks like this trope. [[Spoiler:Only for Letty to find out Basil was using her all along, and then that Brian fathered twins with ''another'' girl in their class at school.]]
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* PairTheSpares: Subverted in ''Panick Diary''. Letty is happily dating Basil so when Brian, who's admired Letty for months or years, gets together with Aggy it looks like this trope. [[Spoiler:Only [[spoiler: Only for Letty to find out Basil was using her all along, and then that Brian fathered twins with ''another'' girl in their class at school.]]
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* ChocolateBaby: Referenced in ''The Teenage Worrier's Worry Files'' when Letty (who's white) believes she may have slept with Junior (who is Black) while drunk at a party; and subsequently thinks she may be pregnant. Although she's not in a relationship with anyone, she's still interested in Adam and worries what he will think, especially as the identity of the baby's father would be obvious.
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* ChocolateBaby: Referenced in ''The Teenage Worrier's Worry Files'' when Letty (who's white) believes she may have slept with Junior (who is Black) while drunk at a party; and subsequently thinks she may be pregnant. Although she's not in a relationship with anyone, she's still interested in Adam and worries what he will think, especially as the identity of the baby's father would be obvious.
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* ChocolateBaby: Referenced in ''The Teenage Worrier's Worry Files'' when Letty (who's white) believes she may have slept with Junior (who is Black) while drunk at a party; and subsequently thinks she may be pregnant. Although she's not in a relationship with anyone, she's still interested in Adam and worries what he will think, especially as the identity of the baby's father would be obvious.
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* AbuseMistake: In an example of passing off abuse as something innocent, Letty describes an incident where a man who attacked Hazel got away with it by convincing a bystander "She's my girlfriend; we're just having a row" (fighting.)
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* MistakenForAbuse: In an example of passing off abuse as something innocent, Letty describes an incident where a man who attacked Hazel got away with it by convincing a bystander "She's my girlfriend; we're just having a row" (fighting.)
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* LeftHanging: ''I Was a Teenage Worrier'' briefly mentions that Aggy's parents have recently broken up and she is upset at her father wanting his new girlfriend to move in. This is never picked up on again.
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