Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras

Hopkins, Cathy. Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras. New York: Simon Pulse, 2003.

Fourteen-year-old Lucy Lovering has goals: meet the mystery boy, grow six inches, save the world. What she fears she doesn’t have is the brains and talent to make reach them.

Class Profile Sheet for Lucy Lovering. Age: 14 but I look about 12. Height/build: 4 foot 8 and a HALF. Slim. 30 minus A chest. Race/Nationality: English/Scottish. Possibly alien. Short, skinny, feels-like-an-alien Lucy is having a heck of a time. Is she losing her best friend? Has she fallen in love at first sight? Will she ever finish her choose-a-career assignment for school? Lucy has her hands full with Mates, Dates and Inflatable Bras.
First in a series.

Awards. American Library Association Young Adult Library Services Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, 2004.

Cover photograph © 2003 by Paul Draine
Cover design by Debbie Sfetsios
Scanned May 15, 2009

Hopkins, Cathy. Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras. New York: Simon Pulse, 2003.
0-689-85544-3. $5.99. Paperback. (Originally published in the United Kingdom, 2001.)