Gum Girl

Simbi's father has the extraordinary notion that marrying early is best for a girl, but his daughter thinks differently - until she meets the unswervingly handsome Gbenga. Is marriage in the cards or will Simbi - who chews gum like a militant training to become a terrorist - find her love thwarted by her unsavoury pastime? Only tears and a gum-smacking heartache can tell

PHILIP BEGHO is an award-winning author with over a hundred published books to his credit. He has worked as a journalist, a lawyer, a banker and a university lecturer. Over seventy of his books are for children, but his Teenage Blues series specifically address the problem of pre-marital sex and are meant for adolescents and young adults only - not children.