Lola Rose
by
Jacqueline Wilson
Illustrator: Nick Sharratt
When Jayni's violent father starts hitting her as well as her mother, her mum realises that she has to move away. Fortunately, mum has had a win on a lottery card so Jayni, her younger brother Kenny and mum all move to London.
Here they change their names to Lola Rose, Kendal and Victoria and go on a spending spree. Hardly more than a child herself, Lola's feckless mother discovers a lump in her breast and has an operation, leaving the children to fend for themselves.
The story is told by Lola Rose, aged about 10 but acting as the adult in the family. Fortunately she has the sense to contact her mum's estranged sister, and Aunty Barbara comes to the rescue.
Jacqueline Wilson demonstrates her skill by capturing the experiences of a young carer, fearful about what the cancer will do to her mother.
Publisher: Corgi Children's
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Jacqueline Wilson
Children's Laureate 2005-2007
Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, and spent her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, where she still lives today. She started her writing career as a teenage journalist with D.C. Thompson, writing for the teenage magazine Jackie which was named after her. Today her popular books for children have sold millions of copies and have been translated into more than thirty languages.Jacqueline's books include The Story of Tracy Beaker, which has become a hugely successful BBC TV series; Girls in Love, which together with its two sequels was filmed for ITV television; and Double Act, which she adapted for Channel 4 and which won the Royal TV Society's Best Children's Fiction Award. As the fourth Children's Laureate (2005-2007) she promoted the importance of sharing books, and reading aloud together.
Visit Jacqueline's website
http://www.jacquelinewilson.co.uk
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Nick Sharratt
Nick liked drawing from an early age. 'When I was nine,' he says, 'a picture that I'd drawn at school was pinned up in the hall, and the husband of one of the teachers saw it and offered me five pounds to do a similar picture for him. That's when I decided I was going to be a professional artist one day! I nearly always drew in felt tip pens then, and I liked drawing big crowd scenes. I'd start in the bottom left-hand corner of the paper and just let the picture grow, telling myself stories about each of the characters in turn as I drew them.'
Nick Sharratt
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