Plain Rude

Plain Rude is a laugh-out-loud chapter book about Ian Rude, a high school student who fabricates an interest in conservation to impress a girl. His plan goes awry when he's blackmailed by the intensely eccentric Natasha, who forces him into increasingly bizarre and illegal acts, including caring for unusual animals and attempting to sabotage a neighbor's emu farm. This comedic adventure explores themes of honesty, self-acceptance, peer pressure, and the lengths one might go to for social acceptance or romance. While filled with absurd situations and humor, it subtly touches on the importance of integrity and standing up for oneself.

When plain - looking Ian Rude pretends he's into conservation to get the most gorgeous girl at Yarradindi High, he doesn't count on being blackmailed into doing weird and insane things by Natasha, the girl who puts the word 'mental' into 'environmentalist'. It's bad enough when she makes him look after her snot - spitting bats and feed her python. But things get desperate when she wants him to sabotage his neighbours' new emu farm. Will Ian get the scrumptious Suzie? Will demented Natasha drown him in Syd Pocky's toilet bowl? Is Ian really an emu whisperer? From the writer of Kelp and Rude Health, Plan Rude is an off - the - wall comedy about how NOT to get a girlfriend.