I'm Elsa, and I'm hoping to be a big star one day. I tell jokes all the time to try and cheer my family up. Trouble is, no-one seems to laugh much anymore. Not since we lost our lovely house and had to move into a bed and breakfast hotel...

A superb novel for older readers about forbidden love, from the bestselling, award-winning Jacqueline Wilson.
Fourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. Forced to wear Mum's odd hand-made garments and forbidden from reading teenage magazines, they know they're very different to 'normal' girls -- but when Dad has a stroke and ends up in hospital, unable to move or speak, Prue suddenly discovers what it's like to have a little freedom.
Sent to a real school for the first time, Prue struggles...

Pearl and Jodie are sisters. When their parents get new jobs as the cook and caretaker at a fusty old boarding school, the girls have to move there and spend their summer holidays in the school with just a few children and staff for company. When they arrive, things start to change

An unforgettable and moving story for older readers from mega-bestseller Jacqueline Wilson, featuring a special introduction from the author.
April knows she was abandoned in a rubbish bin as a newborn baby, fourteen years ago. Now she's happily settled with her foster mother, Marion -- but there's a part of April that's desperate to know where she really came from, and who she really is. If only she could remember her real mother -- or even find her. An engrossing, engaging and highly moving novel from the acclaimed bestseller Jacqueline Wilson.

A sparkling gem of a novel for older readers from bestselling Jacqueline Wilson, featuring a special introduction by the author.
Dixie is the youngest Diamond girl. She and her sisters -- dreamy Martine, glamorous Rochelle and tough Jude - could hardly be more different, but their mum has always tried to teach them the value of sticking together.

Now Mum's expecting yet another baby, and she's convinced this one's a boy. She insists they move to a bigger place - but it's rough, dilapidated and filthy, and before they've even unpacked, Mum's gone into labour Can the Diamond girls...

A book about three girls in Year Nine.

Ellie, Magda and Nadine are back - but they're not very happy. Ellie's romance with Russell is teetering on the rocks. Magda's lost her pet. Nadine is fed up with the other two lecturing her about the dangers of meeting someone on the Internet. She thinks her e-mail boyfriend sounds wonderful. Can the girls' friendship survive these testing times?

Magda is tall and glamorous, Nadine is willowy and 'gothic' and Ellie is just plain normal. The three girls have been best friends 'forever' but now Ellie is convinced she's fat; Nadine wants to be a model; and Magda worries that her appearance is giving guys the wrong idea.

Dinah meets a friendly iguanodon at the museum and is given a very special packed lunch, and a huge surprise. Previous titles by Jacqueline Wilson include 'Double Act' and 'Bad Girls'.

Lizzie refuses to speak to her new stepbrothers, Sam their dad, or even her mum. She's totally fed up at having to join a new family and nothing can coax her into speaking to them. Then she meets Great Gran, a more stubborn person than she will ever be.