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Midnight

by Jacqueline Wilson, illustrated by Nick Sharratt

Interest age: 11+
Reading age: 10+

Published by Yearling, 2008

  • Classics
  • Coming-of-age

About this book

Although she loves him dearly, Violet is scared of her older brother Will, because he often taunts and teases her, and even physically hurts her. When their grandmother spitefully reveals that Will is adopted, his self-esteem collapses and his behaviour becomes even more disturbing.

Although Violet is desperate to please Will, she hates the control he has over her. In order to escape, she retreats into the world of her fairy books, writing unsent letters to their author and designing fairy dolls.

When she argues with a new friend, she destroys her dolls and runs away, trying to track down the author of the imaginary world she yearns to hide within. This is a powerful novel by an exceptional writer who doesn’t shy away from difficult issues.

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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