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Starring Tracy Beaker

by Jacqueline Wilson, illustrated by Nick Sharratt

Interest age: 8+
Reading age: 8+

Published by Random House, 2007

  • Classics
  • Funny

About this book

Tracy Beaker is back and this time she's been cast as Ebenezer Scrooge in her school play. Bringing her usual mixture of confidence and fiery temper to the part, Tracy is determined to make the most of her starring role - not least because she's invited her mother along to watch her perform.

With help from her potential foster mother Cam, Tracy prepares for her part and looks forward to a reunion with her mother. As usual things don’t turn out exactly as Tracy expects but she and Cam eventually manage to create a Christmas to remember.

Sensitively and humorously written, the reader aches for Tracy and her desire for acknowledgement from her absent mother. Still as fresh as the first Tracy Beaker novel 15 years ago, this will delight Tracy's army of fans and new readers alike.

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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