- Families, Family, Juvenile fiction, Family life
Gemma and Alice have known each other all their lives, but when Gemma reads Alice's diary at a sleepover, it eventually leads her to discover Alice is moving. Because of their distance, Gemma and Alice struggle to stay friends, with the possibility of each other making new friends.
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Classical in form, spare, earnest and contemporary.
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- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Jacqueline Wilson
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781596432789
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Dame Jacqueline Wilson DBE FRSL (born 17 December 1945) is an English novelist known for her popular children's literature. Her novels have been notable for featuring realistic topics such as adoption and divorce without alienating her large readership. Since her debut novel in 1969, Wilson has written over 100 books. When Wilson began to focus on writing, she completed several crime fiction novels before dedicating herself to children's books. At the age of 40, she took A-level English and earned a grade A. She had mixed success with about 40 books before the breakthrough to fame in 1991 with The Story of Tracy Beaker, published by Doubleday. As her children's novels frequently feature them
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