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Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath 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' exercise books as she grew up. As a teenager she started work as a journalist working for a magazine publishing company in Scotland. She has been writing full time all her adult life.

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Jacqueline has been on countless shortlists and has won many awards, including the Smarties Prize, and the Children's Book Award. The Illustrated Mum won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the 1999 Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Children's Book Award. The Story of Tracy Beaker won the 2002 Blue Peter People's Choicse Award.

Millions of copies of her books have been sold in the UK alone. In the poll conducted by the BBC, The Big Read, four books by Jacqueline Wilson were in the Top 100: Double Act, Girls in Love, Vicky Angel and The Story of Tracy Beaker. According to a recent Mori poll Jacqueline was voted English children's favourite children's author.

Jacqueline Wilson has sold millions of books, her total stands at over 20 million in the UK alone. In June 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools and was made a Dame in the New Year's Honours List for 2008.

 
 

My Sister Jodie
My Sister Jodie Pearl and Jodie are sisters. Pearl is the quiet, cautious, studious younger sister. Jodie is bold and brash and bad - but Pearl adores her anyway. Things start to change when their parents take up new jobs.

  Jacqueline Wilson Journal
Jacqueline Wilson JournalLots of space to fill with thoughts, ideas, dreams and hopes and lots of pages to fill in and personalise, this is a journal to treasure all year, any year.
 

Jacqueline Wilson Address Book
The Jacqueline Wilson Address BookFeatures Jacqueline's best-loved characters alongside space to fill in addresses, phone numbers and email addresses for all your friends and family.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Jacky Daydream
Jacky DaydreamJaqueline Wilson explores her early years with the same warmth and lightness of touch that imbues
her novels and covers such difficult issues as her parents' extra-marital affairs with delicacy. With photographs and new illustrations by Nick Sharratt, this book is a delight for all of Jacky's fans, and a treat for any new readers too.

  Kiss
KissA moving, compelling and delicately handled treatment of sexuality from the Children's Laureate: Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children. But as they become teenagers, things are starting to change.
 

Starring Tracy Beaker
Starring Tracy BeakerTracy Beaker is back . . . and she’s just desperate for a role in her school play. They’re performing A Christmas Carol and for one extremely worrying moment, the irrepressible Tracy thinks she might not even get to play one of the unnamed street urchins. But then she is cast
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The Girls Collection
The Girls CollectionAll four titles in the Girls series: GIRLS IN LOVE, GIRLS UNDER PRESSURE, GIRLS OUT LATE and GIRLS IN TEARS available in a gorgeous boxset, at a great price. Join Ellie, Magda and Nadine as they deal with all the surprises teenage life can bring.

 

Great Books to Read Aloud
Great Books to Read AloudA complete guide to all the best books for parents to read aloud to their children - that they'll all enjoy! This indispensable addition to any household features reading tips from experts and sample extracts from brilliantly entertaining stories for all age groups.

 

Love Lessons
Love LessonsFourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. They know they are different to 'normal' girls but their attempts to find out what being an ordianry teenager are like - buying nice clothes instead of wearing Mum's odd hand-made garments, reading teenage magazines etc - are greeted with fury by their Dad...

 
   
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Your second chance to read Kiss! Read it now in paperback.

Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson has been made into a fantastic new theatre show on at the Polka theatre until 19th April and then on tour around the country! Find out more and win a family ticket to the show by visiting the competitions page of the free Jacqueline Wilson fan club! Click here now!

My Sister Jodie, the brand new Jacqueline Wilson novel, is out now!

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50 Questions you always wanted to know about Jacqueline

Jacqueline is a Patron for the Ellie Savage Memorial Trust - click here to find out more. She is also a patron of the charity Momentum www.moment-um.org