Book description
Floss's parents are divorced, and she divides up her week, spending
five days with her mum, her new stepdad and her baby half-brother. The
other two days Floss spends with her dad, helping him to run his
greasy spoon cafe. But their simple arrangement is thrown into
disarray when Floss's mum decides to move to Australia.
Making the difficult decision to stay at home, Floss moves in
permanently with her dad and they muddle along happily together,
surviving on chip butties and enjoying visits to the local funfair.
But disaster strikes - Dad's money troubles catch up with him and they
have to move out of the cafe. They're homeless - but can their new
fairground friends help out?
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
