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Girls

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.

'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

The first of Jacqueline Wilson's mega-bestselling Girls series – now reissued with a gorgeous new cover look.

Mix some Adrian Mole-style philosophising with Judy Blume-type teenage angst and you have the recipe for Girls in Love, a hilarious, deftly written novel

Will certainly stir pre-teen interest . . . Told with her usual readable style

A moving and realistic story about love and about losing a parent

Jacqueline Wilson (Author) Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. She is now one of Britain’s bestselling and most beloved children’s authors. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold. 
 
As well as winning many awards for her books, including the Children’s Book of the Year, Jacqueline is a former Children’s Laureate, and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. 
 
Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings. 
 
Find out more about Jacqueline and her books at www.jacquelinewilson.co.uk Nick Sharratt (Illustrator) Nick Sharratt has written and illustrated many books for children including Shark in the Park, You Choose and Pants. He has won numerous awards for his picture books, including the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the 2001 Children's Book Award. He has also enjoyed stellar success illustrating Jacqueline Wilson's books. Nick lives in Hove.

Meet Ellie and her best friends Nadine and Magda, three teenage girls just starting Year Nine with a lot on their minds – mainly boys! Told in the bright, sparky and authentic voice of Ellie, Girls in Love is a funny, frank and revealing look at their friendships, problems and heartaches that older fans of bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson will adore. 
 
Books in the series: 
1. Girls in Love 
2. Girls Under Pressure 
3. Girls Out Late 
4. Girls in Tears

Girls In Love

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

The fantastic fourth instalment in the bestselling Girls series for Jacqueline's older fans, featuring an introduction from the author.

Will appeal to many girls facing relationship issues

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

Girls In Tears

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

The third instalment in the bestselling Girls series for older readers, featuring best friends Ellie, Nadine and Magda, with a special introduction from award-winning author Jacqueline Wilson.

The portrayal of the girls' relationships and of their love lives is agonisingly accurate. No wonder girls cannot get enough of Jacqueline Wilson

Bursting with a thirteen-year-old's delight in hanging out with her friends and taking on the world

Far more believable and emotionally valid than other fiction of its ilk

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

Girls Out Late

‘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

The touching and hilarious second title in Jacqueline Wilson's bestselling Girls series, perfect for older readers – now with a gorgeous new cover.

The narrators speak so amusingly that everyone from seven to fourteen feels included . . . Wilson addresses the issues in a light-hearted but sensible way

As usual Wilson gets right inside her characters and their feelings, portraying them with understanding and sympathy . . . An excellent and timely book

Magda is tall and glamorous, Nadine is willowy and 'gothic'. And Ellie . . . well, Ellie is just plain normal. The three girls have been best friends forever, but now Ellie is convinced she's fat, Nadine wants to be a model, and Magda worries that her appearance is giving guys the wrong idea. The pressure is on for them to change the way they look – but can they learn to love themselves, just the way they are? 
 
Books in the series: 
1. Girls in Love 
2. Girls Under Pressure 
3. Girls Out Late 
4. Girls in Tears

Girls

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