Synopses & Reviews
Another superb novel to delight Jacqueline Wilsons vast 8-12-year-old girl fanbase.
Dixie is the youngest of the Diamond family. She and her sisters, dreamy Martine, glamorous Rochelle and tough Jude, could hardly be more different from each other but their Mums tried to teach them the value of sticking together. Now Mums expecting yet another baby and shes convinced this ones a boy. Time to move to a bigger place, she insists, and the girls scarcely have time to protest before they find themselves at their new house. Its rough, dilapidated and filthy and before theyve even unpacked the furniture, Mum goes into labour!
By the time Mum comes home with the new baby, Judes been in a fight, Rochelles found a new boyfriend and Martines stormed off. Only Dixie stays loyally by Mums side – so only Dixie spots her secret…
About the Author
Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath, Somerset, in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first “novel” when she was nine, filling countless Woolworths composition books as she grew up. She started work at a publisher and then went on to work as a journalist for D.C. Thomson in Scotland after she had an article published in
Jackie magazine. Since having her daughter, Emma, she has been writing full time.
Jacquelines biggest passion and/or worst vice is buying books. She has over 15,000 books crammed into every corner of her small house and theyve started to creep across the carpets. Her favorite holiday place is Hay-On-Wye, which has about twenty secondhand bookshops.
Jacqueline has written numerous books for young people including: Bad Girls, Double Act, The Lottie Project, The Suitcase Kid, The Story of Tracy Beaker, The Bed and Breakfast Star, Cliffhanger, The Illustrated Mum and a quartet for slightly older readers, which includes Girls in Love (an ALA Quick Pick), Girls Under Pressure, Girls Out Late, and Girls in Tears. She has also written a series of crime novels and several plays, which have been broadcast on the radio.
Jacqueline has received countless honors and has won several awards in England, including The Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award for The Bed and Breakfast Star, the Smarties Prize, the Sheffield Childrens Book Award and the Childrens Book Award for Double Act. The Illustrated Mum was shortlisted for the Whitbread Childrens Book Awardand has won the Childrens Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and the Guardian Childrens Fiction Award. Girls in Tears received the W.H. Smith Childrens Book of the Year Award.