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Girls

by 4 books in this series
Being a teenager is tough, but having your two best friends around you can make it easier. Sometimes. Thirteen year old Ellie narrates this quartet of books as three girls navigate their way through their early teenage years, finding their first loves, testing the boundaries with their parents, falling out, making new friends, working out what they really want and realising how lucky they are to have each other. Jaqueline Wilson deals with the pressures surrounding teenage girls with her usual style, creating a series that is in equal measure heartwrenching and uplifting.
#1 - Girls In Love
#1 - Girls In Love
'Nadine has a boyfriend. I can't believe it! How come Nadine's got a boyfriend before me?'

Ellie, Nadine and Magda are three best friends who couldn't be more different - Ellie is artistic, Nadine is goth, and Magda is all glitz and glam - but they love each other all the same.

They're just starting Year Nine, and being a teenager certainly isn't easy. They've got a lot on their minds - mainly boys! When Nadine and Magda both get boyfriends, Ellie can't help feeling left out.

Before she can help herself, she starts spinning a web of lies she finds hard to stop...

From bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson, Girls in Love is a funny, frank take on friendship, problems and heartaches that older fans will adore. Not suitable for younger readers.

Delightful - Observer

Follow the rest of Ellie, Nadine and Magda's adventures through the series:
1. Girls in Love
2. Girls Under Pressure
3. Girls Out Late
4. Girls in Tears
#2 - Girls Under Pressure
#2 - Girls Under Pressure

‘Up at the top the lights are still flashing and the queue is even bigger and all around me there are girls much taller than me, much prettier than me, much much much thinner than me.’


Magda is tall and glamorous, but she’s worried that her appearance is giving guys the wrong idea.


Nadine is willowy and gothic – she wants to be a model, but the industry is unforgiving.


And Ellie…well, Ellie is convinced she’s fat.


The pressure is on for the girls to change the way they look – but can they learn to love themselves the way they are?


Girls Under Pressure is the second of Jacqueline Wilson’s popular Girls series, sensitively handling self-esteem issues in a light-hearted, relatable way.


This book features an unfiltered depiction of an eating disorder. Not suitable for younger readers.


Ellie, Magda and Nadine’s journeys continue in the series:
1. Girls in Love
2. Girls Under Pressure
3. Girls Out Late
4. Girls in Tears

#3 - Girls Out Late
#3 - Girls Out Late
Ellie has a boyfriend! And he's really, truly interested in her - not in her best friends, Magda and Nadine! She and oh-so-gorgeous Russell have so much in common - Ellie knows they're made for each other. If only Dad thought so too . . .

While Ellie tries her best to cope with Dad's totally unreasonable curfew, Magda's dealing with her crush on a teacher - and Nadine's falling for slimy Liam again. What they need is a girls' night out - but they might get a little more than they bargained for . . .

Not suitable for younger readers.

Books in the series:
1. Girls in Love
2. Girls Under Pressure
3. Girls Out Late
4. Girls in Tears
#4 - Girls In Tears
#4 - Girls In Tears
The girls are back – but they're not very happy! Ellie's glorious romance with Russell is teetering on the rocks. Magda's lost her pet and is desperately upset (though the others didn't even know she had a hamster!). And Nadine is fed up with the other two lecturing her about the dangers of meeting someone from the internet IRL – she thinks the guy she's chatting to online is wonderful . . .

Buckets of tears are wept and hundreds of tissues are sniffled into – can the girls survive these testing times? Not suitable for younger readers.

Books in the series:
1. Girls In Love
2. Girls Under Pressure
3. Girls Out Late
4. Girls In Tears

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