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Annabeth Archer Cohen – Miss Cohen to her students – put aside yet another paper with a disappointed sigh.

Two weeks into her work placement and she'd issued her first assignment to her tenth grade class: write about yourself and your family. She'd been hoping for some well written papers with more information than just their name, date of birth, family details, pets and favourite things.

But unfortunately, a quarter of the way through her stack, she was yet to find one that was actually interesting to read. Who would have thought that fifteen year olds didn't like writing about themselves?!

Picking up the next paper, she pushed her glasses up her nose and hoped that maybe this one would be a winner...

My name is Sorcha Gwendolyn Jane, but my nickname is Brit – because Sorcha is Irish, Gwendolyn is Welsh, and even through Jane is apparently Hebrew, it sounds more English to me, and so there you have it, I'm Great Britain personified.

I was born on 16 November 2013. Apparently I was a risk baby, because Mum and Dad only found out about my existence when Mum was involved in a car crash, but I reckon I turned out okay!

I'm the youngest kid in my family. It wasn't always that way as I had a younger sister named Leisel but she died when I was 2 from a problem with her heart. I can't remember much, but I've been told that I used to call her 'Lee-dul' and we've got a photo of her on our mantle.

I also have two older sisters: Adelaide who is 18 and Marta who is 17. Dad always complains that he needs a son to boost up the non-existent testosterone levels in the house, and calls himself a rose between thorns, but we know he's just joking.

Dad was married before, and he had another daughter too, but they died long before Dad met my Mum. I'm not allowed to know what happened to them until my sixteenth birthday, and so now I have to wait nine months and four days to find out more!

Addy and Mar are closer in age, but Mar and I share a really close bond. We've been sharing a bedroom for almost thirteen years!

My mum's name is Teresa and my dad's name is Patrick. They both work at the California Bureau of Investigation.

Dad's the funny one in our family, and all of us kids got the funny gene, though Mum reckons it should be called the sarcastic gene instead! Mum can be funny too, but Dad reckons the best thing about her is the way she can make grown men cry!

People always assume that Mum is the strict one and Dad's arm can be twisted – but it's the other way around: Mum's a big old softie and Dad's the one you need to watch out for – especially if he says your full name. That definitely means you're in trouble.

I look like Mum with my dark hair, pale skin and dark eyes, but the one thing that I definitely got from Dad was my height. I'm 178cm tall, and I was the same height as Mum by the time I was 13.

When I grow up, I want to work at the CBI – just like Mum and Dad do. I'm good at solving mysteries and I love getting inside someone's head. Plus you get a gun.

I'm a really affectionate person and I love to hug everyone. I also really love my sleep, and always sleep through my alarms in the morning.

My favourite colour is purple and my favourite animals are dinosaurs, but unfortunately there's no chance of me having a real live one as a pet. Maybe one day?

My favourite television show is 'So You Think You Can Dance'. I know that I can't dance, but that doesn't mean that I can't enjoy watching other people do it. My favourite dance genre is Broadway – I mean, what's not to love?! Contemporary has me rubbing my head in confusion though.

My favourite internet show is Pip Astaire PD. What's not to love: hot male lead, sexy female lead, witty sidekicks and a teenager with an attitude all set in a police station. Addy reckons I'm obsessed, but Mar's the one who drools every time Agent Hendricks comes on screen. Mum always complains they never show police work properly and Dad always has some smartarse comment to make, but I don't really care. It's magic! And it makes my Thursday nights!

And so that is a brief history of the life of Sorcha Gwendolyn Jane, aka Brit, the 15 year old extraordinaire.

Taking off her glasses, Annabeth Archer Cohen pushed the paper aside. Well, what would you know - there was hope yet for Form 10G.