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    Best Friends

    By Jacqueline Wilson and Nick Sharratt

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    LITERARY SUPERSTAR JACQUELINE WILSON TELLS A UNIVERSAL STORY
    about what it means to be Best Friends Forever. Gemma and Alice have been best friends since they were born on the same day in the same hospital—it doesn't matter that Gemma loves soccer while Alice prefers drawing, or that Gemma is always getting into trouble while Alice is a model student and daughter. But when Alice has to move to Scotland with her family, their friendship is put to the test. Is Best Friends Forever stronger than five hundred miles? Readers will relate to the heroic efforts the girls make to maintain their friendship and the small disasters of ‘tween life that they encounter along the way. Tender, funny, and always honest, BEST FRIENDS is the book to win American readers into the legions of fans Jacqueline Wilson has world-wide.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 30, 2008
    ISBN9781429927420
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    Best Friends
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    Jacqueline Wilson

    Jacqueline is one of the nation's favourite authors, and her books are loved and cherished by young readers not only in the UK but all over the world. According to a recent Mori poll, Jacqueline was voted English children favourite children's author. She has sold millions of books and in the UK alone the total stands at over 25 million! In 2002 Jacqueline was awarded the OBE for services to literacy in schools and from 2005 to 2007 she was the Children’s Laureate. In 2008 she became Dame Jacqueline Wilson.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent, and I love both the great storytelling, which is a perfect portrayal of 6th grade insecurity, and Shannon's growing willingness to have her own opinions and express them. Hoping to hear more of the story in the future.
    • 5/5
      A follow-up to Hale's autobiographical Real Friends, this middle grade graphic novel is just as sweet and interesting and well-done as the first. She tackles the minefield that is upper grade school/middle school friendships skillfully, and in a way that I think would be comforting and supportive for MG readers going through similar experiences. I know I would have loved to have read this when I was in junior high!
    • 4/5
      As she enters sixth grade, Shannon is feeling pretty good about things. She’s sharing a locker with Jen, the most popular girl in school, so she’s definitely part of the in-crowd. Things can get confusing, though: the imaginative games she used to love aren’t cool any more, sometimes the popular kids are mean, which she knows is wrong, and then there are boys... and the rules for interacting with them seem to have changed. Sometimes all of these things make her so nervous that her stomach hurts. Plus, next year she will be in middle school. Will all of the rules change again?This is Hale’s second graphic memoir, and while I’d definitely recommend it to readers who enjoyed the first one, I think it stands well on its own. I really enjoyed it, and I’m sure that the intended audience will love it even more.
    • 4/5
      I was pleasantly surprised by this--Wilson's books have never appealed to me, and I only picked this up because SLJ sent it to me. I didn't expect such a realistic treatment of a common childhood trauma (a friend moving away), or even the sympathetic treatment of a character who should, by rights, be as annoying as all get-out. (Think equal parts Ramona Quimby and Joey Pigza, and add a splash of angry temper. That's our protagonist.) The main point, which was neither as trite as I'd expected nor as ham-fisted, is that it’s perfectly okay to feel sad and angry when a friend moves away.

      Full review to come in the fall some time, probably post-American publication.
    • 3/5
      I liked this book when I read it - although it's been a while since then, I was about 7 and now I'm 13. I remember liking it but at some points it was a bit slow. I remember liking one of the girls' dads, and it does stick in my brain as a good book. I should read it again soon! Haha. I recommend it for Primary School (elementary school) readers.
    • 4/5
      It's nice to see Jacqueline Wilson write about normal children with normal problems, rather than her usual quick-and-easy win of scooping out the misery-lit barrel. It's also lovely that she manages to give us a happy and uplifting story which is however frank and truthful in its treatment about how close friends become less close as we move away and grow up. The acid pen portraits of Alice's snobbish parents and the gentle sub-plots of relationships between the adults as well as the children are all very well done.I was amused that JW gave in to a moment of weakness and put a 'bloody Harry Potter' rant in her own book ;-)
    • 4/5
      Good book about Friendship!
    • 5/5
      Gemma and Alice are best friends. Even though they are completely different. They do everything together. They know everything about each other. But one day Gemma finds out that Alice is moving away. All the way to Scotland! This fantastically written story by Jacqueline Wilson stretches friendship to the limit and sees if it will break. I would recommend this book to children between 7 and 16. A great read. You won't want to put it down!
    • 3/5
      Gemma and Alice have been best friends for as long as they could remember. But when Alice's family move away, will they still be able to be best friends????
    • 4/5
      This book is an amazing and touching book about two best friends and how their friendship changes!!!