Feddie Girl A Book By Nona David, A Review by Maria's Space

Sunday I started the above book called Feddie Girl, The Hilarious Adventures of An American Teen in A Nigerian Federal School by Nona David.

The cover is beautiful no?

Anyway, the back of the book states:

Boarding school doesn't get any better than this...

For those who have experienced the boarding school life, the adventures of Feddie Girl will bring those memories crashing back... For anyone else, get ready to see the world as Feddie Girl.


In A Nutshell: The book focus on Carlotta and her experience at a Nigerian Federal School which she was sent to for bad behavior. Cutting class, smoking pot, just down right bad teenager. It also centers around her mother, English Professor, Shelly, a recovering alcoholic who has fallen off the wagon and father Dr. Richard Ikedi who is too busy trying to get in his young assistants pants to care about anything else.

When Richard decides to send Carlotta to a Federal School in Nigeria I am stunned when his wife Shelly unwillingly agrees. Is it any wonder this child is having problems? Her parents are the ones who need to go to a Federal School as far as I am concerned. Carlotta's biggest problem is her absentee parents but she is the one that gets shipped off.

I enjoyed reading about Carlotta's totally hating the food in her new surroundings. I loved reading about Maria (hello, I wonder why) and the doctors craving for her. I appreciated the message that we are all more similar than different, the only thing I didn't love was all the names I couldn't pronounce. For some reason I can't skip over them and struggled through them.

While I didn't think the book was hilarious it was a light good, maybe I am too old but I was searching for the humor. Mostly I felt bad for Carlotta and hoped she would be ok in the end.