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Bad Girls

by Jacqueline Wilson, illustrated by Nick Sharratt

Interest age: 8+
Reading age: 8+

Published by Random House, 2006

  • Classics

About this book

Bitterly unhappy and fed up with being teased at school, Mandy White is in need of a friend. However, with her spiky orange hair, strappy stilettos and tendency to shoplift, the colourful Tanya isn't exactly what Mandy's parents would have wished for.

Bad Girls effortlessly depicts the sort of insecurities and concerns to which many young readers will surely relate.

About the author

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.

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