Tallulah (A Midsummer Tights Dream) and the Tree Sisters are back for another term at performing arts college where they comically reinterpret another Shakespeare play. But drama follows Tallulah offstage as she debates who is better boyfriend material: Cain or Charlie. Though the book is light on plot, readers will welcome the return of Tallulah's humorous musings and this distinctly British, quirky cast of characters. Glos.

Fifteen-year-old Tallulah boards with a benignly strange village family while attending an artsy college (British high school) neighboring a school for "bad boys." At school, Lullah's gal group is known as the Tree Sisters, because they make their (usually group) assignations with the lads from the neighboring school at a post in the woods between institutions. The younger cousin of Georgia o has her own series, kicked off in Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging (2000) llah works here to combine Georgia's romantic insights, her own attraction to Charlie, and her distraction with village Lothario Cain, all while staying on as good a side as she can with her school's owlish headmistress. Third in the (Mis)Adventures of Tallulah Casey series (after Withering Tights, 2011), this very British teen chick lit will find its most welcome audience among Georgia fans. A lot of small events happen, strung together with Lullah's lists, obsessive worrying, and, though not very thoroughly realized in print, silly dancing.

Gr 9 Up-In this fun and quirky installment in the series, Georgia Nicolson's 15-year-old Irish cousin, Tallulah Casey, is about to begin her third term at a performing arts college in England. She is excited to be reunited with her friends, the Tree Sisters, and hopefully bump into Charlie-the cute boy with the "tiny girlfriend" who she snogged not too long ago. And of course there's bad-boy Cain, the Dark Black Crow of Heckmondwhite, who Tallulah swears she won't have anything to do with after having her first proper snog with him out on the moors. But trouble abounds once school starts, as her teacher, Dr. Lightowler, is out to get her yet again and Cain won't stop getting in Tallulah's way of finding her first real boyfriend. Told in the entertaining style that readers have come to love, Rennison's story is sure to guarantee more than a few laughs. While the pacing is a bit slow in the middle, girls will find themselves pushing through to the end, eager to see how Tallulah works herself out of predicament after predicament. It is not necessary to have read the first two books to enjoy this one. Fans of the "Confessions of Georgia Nicolson" series (HarperCollins) are sure to fall in love with Tallulah and her crazy antics, and will be eager to devour her next misadventure. Candyce Pruitt-Goddard, Hartford Public Library, CT