y separately published work icon Lasagne Brain single work   novel   young adult   humour  
Is part of Eric Underwood John Larkin , 1993 series - author novel (number 3 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Lasagne Brain
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When Eric Underwood (aka Spaghetti Legs and Pizza Features) unexpectedly makes the journey from boyhood to manhood, the only question he wants to ask is: can he please go back? His essays drive teachers out of their minds, the love of his life dumps him, his best friend hangs around the supermarket with a trolley full of bananas (hoping to pick up more than potassium poisoning) and his father's practically zoned out in front of the golf on TV. It's all another show about nothing! Eric wants to lock himself in his bedroom forever, and if it wasn't for the Teletubbies and the sudden arrival of Imelda, the Scots girl he French kissed in an English pub, he'd just about make it.

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y separately published work icon Spaghetti Legs John Larkin , Milsons Point : Random House , 1993 Z259692 1993 single work novel young adult Eric's "spaghetti legs" may be skinny but for one week of the year after his win at the athletics carnival he is a hero, but for the other fifty-one he is a loser. Eric just wants to be different and special. He wants to make a name for himself.
y separately published work icon Pizza Features John Larkin , Sydney : Mark Macleod Books , 1999 Z48726 1999 single work novel young adult humour

'Eric Underwood is what some people would call a loser and a westie, but he's doing the best he can. He didn't get the looks, he doesn't get the luck, and even when he does get the girl, it never seems to last for long.

'So far he's abandoned Veronica to the sharks (two-legged and otherwise), been told he'll be travelling to England with his grandma, been caught snogging his pillow, been banished to the shed-and that's only the beginning! Eric's story will make you feel good about yourself!'
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Untitled Peta Harrison , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 16 no. 3 2002; (p. 36)
— Review of Lasagne Brain John Larkin , 2002 single work novel
Untitled Anna Ryan-Punch , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 10 no. 4 2002; (p. 43)
— Review of Lasagne Brain John Larkin , 2002 single work novel
Untitled Anna Ryan-Punch , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 10 no. 4 2002; (p. 43)
— Review of Lasagne Brain John Larkin , 2002 single work novel
Untitled Peta Harrison , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 16 no. 3 2002; (p. 36)
— Review of Lasagne Brain John Larkin , 2002 single work novel
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