This time around, Ellie has to watch as all of the key relationships in her life start to fall apart. If you do not receive an invoice within 24 hours, please reach out to us with the details of your purchase.

Honestly, it wasn't what I expected it to be, maybe because I'd read Jacqueline's books when I was younger. There’s fat shaming, slut shaming, some very dodgy comments about trans people, cheating without consequences, unhealthy opinions about diets and body image. this book is amazing for young teenagers it is perfect, there is laughing, crying and DRAMA of course, i would recommend this book to anyone between th age of 11 to 15. It was mentioned several times that Russell wanted to go further than Ellie, but this wasn't explored in much detail. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

no character development, no literature, just dumbed down soap opera for kids with poor language that translates in to a scholastic rating of grade 6-9. Although it was classified as a children's book, because of the content I would say it is a young adult book. Magda's lost her pet and is desperately upset (though the others didn't even know she had a hamster! There's a subplot about her having a creepy online boyfriend and thankfully that's done right with the girls learning you never know who you can trust. Magda`s lost her pet and is desperately upset (though the others didn`t even know she still had a hamster!

When this first came out in 2002, I was 16 years old and already considered myself ‘too old’ to read Jacqueline Wilson anymore - and if this writing is anything to go by, I certainly was. The main character is 13, but this book talks quite openly about older boys pressuring the girls for sex, going to house parties and drinking straight vodka. Double Act won the prestigious Smarties Medal and the Children’s Book Award as well as being highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. Get caught up in the wonderfully engrossing world of these three teenage girls and their absorbing, convincing and entertaining lives and loves.After being one of the best book series ever in my opinion, this was where the Girls series came crashing down. Later it's revealed that Russell forced the kiss on Magda and she wasn't making out with him consensually. One quote that's always stuck out to me is "I wish he would see me as Ellie the person, not Ellie the body. However, to give it some credit, Ellie was kept mostly intact, the writing style remains as strong as ever, and I did like some storylines - the Dad and Anna and Eggs plotline was pretty decent. I think Ellie should have opted for choosing some new friends three books ago, it doesn’t bode well for her having people like that around her as a character.

And, as good as it is to portray teenagers being happy in relationships, I certainly don't like how the boys are characterised as only interested in sex. I did accidentally read a review that spoiled the whole book for me, so I didn't enjoy it as much as I think I would have. it deals with lots of common issues many girls face in their teen years, and handles them in a funny, loving, heartwarming manner.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! These were my least favourite Jacqueline Wilson books when I was younger (why would you want to be a teenager talking about boys all the time when you could be the Suitcase Kid, cracking jokes at the expense of her horrible stepdad or Tracy Beaker, absolutely dominating the Dumping Ground?

the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Corgi The date of this copy is 2005 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series.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. Jacqueline Wilson, award-winning queen of tell-it-as-it-is children's literature, hits the teen spot with this straightforward, highly enjoyable novel, adding further flesh to the bones of the characters her loyal readers will have come to love in Girls In Love, Girls Under Pressure and Girls Out Late. And Nadine is fed up with the other two lecturing her about the dangers of meeting someone on the Internet - she thinks her online boyfriend sounds wonderful! Buckets of tears are wept and hundreds of tissues are sniffled into - can the girls survive these testing times?