- Literature, Fiction, Teacher-student relationships, Children's fiction
Another superb novel for older readers from our best-selling authorFourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Jacqueline Wilson
- First published
- October 31, 2005
- Pages
- 169
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Corgi, Doubleday UK
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385608367
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 24 have read it and 167 want to.
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
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Two by Two 201688% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Saving 6 202388% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Five Feet Apart 201888% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
The Girl He Used to Know 201987% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Variation 202487% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
The illustrated mum 199987% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Unsteady 202386% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Me Before You 201286% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Say "I Love You." 201289% alikeTelevision · Both classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated 201786% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, contemporary, earnest.