The Secret Life of a Funny Girl (13 page)

About the Author

Susan Chalker Browne is a writer living in St. John's, Newfoundland.
The Secret Life of a Funny Girl
is her tenth book for children and her first young adult novel. Her other works include Goodness Gracious,
Gulliver Mulligan; The Land of a Thousand Whales
; and
Freddy's Day at the Races
. Susan has won writing awards from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards, the Cuffer Prize, and the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia Writing Competition. She is married to Dennis Browne and they have four grown children.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Authors Note

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

About the Author

the secret life of a funny girl