She has sold millions of books and in the UK alone the total now stands at over 35 million! Jacqueline is one of the nation’s favourite authors, and her books are loved and cherished by young readers not only in the UK but all over the world. The Story of Tracy Beaker won the 2002 Blue Peter People’s Choice Award. The Illustrated Mum won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the 1999 Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and was also shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Children’s Book Award.ĭouble Act won the prestigious Smarties Medal and the Children’s Book Award as well as being highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. Since then Jacqueline has been on countless awards shortlists and has gone on to win many awards. This was also the first of her books to be illustrated by Nick Sharratt. One of Jacqueline’s most successful and enduring creations has been the famous Tracy Beaker, who first appeared in 1991 in The Story of Tracy Beaker. As a teenager she started work for a magazine publishing company and then went on to work as a journalist on Jackie magazine (which she was told was named after her!) before turning to writing novels full-time. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first ‘novel’ when she was nine, filling in countless Woolworths’ exercise books as she grew up. I would love to recommend this book! Once you start reading, you will enjoy it and will be unable to take your eyes off the page! My favourite part was when the dangerous sequence of events began.Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames.

However, once the first World War War against Germany begins, Morgan, the factory owner's son dies in the army and Opal, who is the factory owner's favourite is offered the chance to go to art school as she is very talented as well as being offered her own house by Mrs Roberts! Whilst all this is happening, Cassie has found her true love Daniel and they start a family by having two children together.

At the factory, the owner's son and Opal fall deeply in love.

During that time she's not allowed to see her best friend because her best friend's mother won't allow her to because of what happened with Opal's father.

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