Jacqueline Wilson's Happy Holidays is the perfect summer read for any fan! Don’t just spend your summer holiday with just one pal from Jacqueline Wilson’s world, hang out with a whole bunch of them! As well as puzzles, fun facts and activities this bumper book also features short stories from: Tracy Beaker Hetty Feather Beauty (from Cookie) Gemma (from Best Friends) Lily (from Lily Alone) Plus a holiday adventure with Tim and Biscuits from Cliffhanger! Whether you’re spending the day making sandcastles on the beach, or spending all your pocket money in the seafront arcades, it’s going to be an amazing summer with Jacqueline Wilson!

How will you spend your holiday? Will you be swimming in the sea? Eating lots of ice cream? Or relaxing in the garden with a brilliant book? Jacqueline Wilson’s Happy Holidays is packed with fantastic summery puzzles, activities, facts and stories, including Buried Alive! plus a brand-new tale from Jacqueline. Join Tracy, Hetty and all your other favourite characters on the best holiday ever!

Clover Moon’s imagination is her best escape from a life of hardship in poverty-stricken Victorian London. When tragedy plunges her into a world of grief, Clover realizes that everything she loved about the place she called home is gone. Clover hears of a place she could run to, but where will she find the courage – and the chance – to break free? And could leaving her family be just what she needs to find a place that really feels like home? Introducing a brilliant and brave heroine from the wonderful world of the bestselling and award-winning Jacqueline Wilson.

Fourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. Forced to wear Mum's odd hand-made garments and forbidden from reading teenage magazines, they know they're very different to 'normal' girls - but when Dad has a stroke and ends up in hospital, unable to move or speak, Prue suddenly discovers what it's like to have a little freedom. Sent to a real school for the first time, Prue struggles to fit in. The only person she can talk to is her kindly, young - and handsome - art teacher, Rax. They quickly bond, and Prue feels more and more drawn to him. As her feelings grow stronger, she begins to realise that he might feel the same way about her. But nothing could ever happen between them - could it?

Ellie has a boyfriend! And he's really, truly interested in her - not in her best friends, Magda and Nadine! She and oh-so-gorgeous Russell have so much in common - Ellie knows they're made for each other. If only Dad thought so too . . . While Ellie tries her best to cope with Dad's totally unreasonable curfew, Magda's dealing with her crush on a teacher - and Nadine's falling for slimy Liam again. What they need is a girls' night out - but they might get a little more than they bargained for . . .

Meet the terrible twosome, Ruby and Garnet, in DOUBLE ACT - twins with identical looks and identical interests, but different hopesa And in BAD GIRLS, there's Mandy who's desperate to escape being teased at school. Friendship with Tanya seems like a great solution - even though Mum says she's a bad girla

From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine’s Madame Doubtfire, to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker, it might seem that the traditional family and the ideals that accompany it have long vanished. However, in The Family in English Children’s Literature, Ann Alston argues that this is far from the case. She suggests that despite the tales of family woe portrayed in children’s literature, the desire for the happy, contented nuclear family remains inherent within the ideological subtexts of children’s literature. Using 1818 as a starting point, Alston investigates families in children’s literature at their most intimate, focusing on how they share their spaces, their ideals of home, and even on what they eat for dinner. What emerges from Alston’s study are not so much the contrasts that exist between periods, but rather the startling similarities of the ideology of family intrinsic to children’s literature. The Family in English Children’s Literature sheds light on who maintains control, who behaves, and how significant children’s literature is in shaping our ideas about what makes a family "good."

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