Bøker av Jacqueline Wilson

I''m Sadie and I''m nearly nine. Mum''s a childminder, but she doesn''t have to mind me. I can mind myself, easy-peasy. Lucky for Mum, because now she''s got the flu, so I''ve got to mind her ¿ and help with all the babies!

Beauty Cookson is no beauty. She''s a plain, timid girl who constantly feels inferior to the super-confident, snooty girls at school. Worse than the teasing in the playground, though, is the unpredictable, hurtful criticism from her father. Beauty and her meek, sweet mother live in uneasy fear of his fierce rages, sparked whenever they break one of his fussy house rules.Eventually, after an unbearable birthday party and the very real threat of Dad''s out-of-control temper, Mum and Beauty run away. Finding themselves in a quiet, idyllic seaside village, their new-found freedom and a moment of culinary inspiration give them a hobby, an income and even a new nickname for Beauty. Can they begin a happier, sweeter life ¿ without Dad?

Gemma and Alice were born on the same day and have been devoted best friends ever since. Despite Gemma''s larger-than-life personality and Alice''s quieter, calmer character, the two are inseparable ¿ until Alice has to move house, all the way to Scotland.Gemma is utterly distraught, particularly at the thought that Alice might find a new best friend. Is there anything Gem''s brothers, or perhaps her grandad, can do to help?