Book description
Quiet, cautious Pearl has always adored her bold, brash, bad big
sister Jodie. When their parents get new jobs at a grand, fusty old
boarding school, Melchester College, the girls have to move there -
and when they arrive, things start to change. Jodie has always been
the leader - but now it's Pearl who's making new friends. Jodie just
seems to be getting into more and more trouble - arguing with Mum,
scaring the little children, flirting with the gardener. She really
doesn't fit in with the posh teenagers at the school.
Pearl begins to wonder if she needs Jodie as much as she used to.
But when Firework Night comes around and a tragic event occurs, Pearl
realises quite how much Jodie means to her.
JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known and hugely popular
author who served as Children's Laureate from 2005-7. She has been
awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the British
Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award
(for The Illustrated Mum), the Smarties Prize and the
Children's Book Award (for Double Act, for which she was also
highly commended for the Carnegie Medal). In 2002 Jacqueline was given
an OBE for services to literacy in schools and in 2008 she was
appointed a Dame. She was the author most borrowed from British
libraries in the last decade.
'A brilliant writer of wit and subtlety' THE TIMES
'She should be prescribed for all cases of reading reluctance'
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
'Has a rare gift for writing lightly and amusingly about emotional
issues' BOOKSELLER
