Love Lessons |
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 | Love Lessons is another foray into the hormone-rushing world of the teenage girl and this time, Jackie really means business! Tackling a subject she herself has admitted to being 'difficult', Wilson has given herself a double-bubble helping of trouble by veering away from 'typical teens' like the delightful Ellie, Magda and Nadine; instead presenting us with Prudence, a girl with an unfortunate name, home life and wardrobe. Prudence is about as far away from the norm as you can get. We have, of course, been presented with children from dysfunctional families before (The Diamond Girls and The Illustrated Mum are prime examples of this) but by today's standards Prudence and her chubby sister Grace really are outsiders. Not only are they home-schooled by their bossy, domineering and old fashioned father, Bernard, they also live in virtual poverty - enduring an unpleasantly puritan life free of mod-cons, treats,and contact with the outside world. They are not free, however, of -horror of ... read more.
Written by Jacqueline Wilson.
Published 01 June 2006.
Published by Corgi Childrens.
rrp £5.99.
169 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0552553522
ISBN-13: 9780552553520 | |
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