From Publishers Weekly
Wilson Double Act; Bad Girls presents an
insightful portrait of 10-year-old Tracy in the girl''s own words. Readers
initially make her acquaintance through entries in a fill-in book entitled "My
Book About Me." Her revelations are by turn caustic, funny and heartbreaking.
Living in a group home for children after two unsuccessful stints in foster
homes, Tracy repeatedly expresses her fervent hope and pitiable conviction that
her roaming, much-idolized mother wi
內容簡介:
I''m Tracy Beaker. This is a book all about me. I''d read it if I were you.
It''s the most incredible dynamic heart-rending story. Honest.''
Tracy is ten years old. She lives in a Children''s Home but would like a real
home one day, with a real family. Meet Tracy, follow her story and share her
hopes for the future in this beautifully observed, touching and often very funny
tale, all told in Tracy''s own words.
關於作者:
JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known and hugely popular author who
served as Children''s Laureate from 2005-7. THE ILLUSTRATED MUM was chosen as the
British Children''s Book of the Year in 1999 and was winner of the Guardian
Children''s Fiction Award 2000. Jacqueline has won the prestigious Smarties Prize
and the Children''s Book Award for DOUBLE ACT, which 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 made a Dame.
* ''A brilliant young writer of wit and subtlety'' THE TIMES
* ''Hugely popular with seven to ten year olds: she should be prescribed for
all cases of reading reluctance'' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
* ''Has a rare gift for writing lightly and amusingly about emtional issues''
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