Poor Laura ends up being coerced into having sex when she has no idea what's actually going on and her parents are furious on finding out that she's pregnant and send her away to Heathcote House. I found her writing to be just as engaging and well-paced as I did when I was a teenager, which surprised me.

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What follows is a well-paced, emotional and intermittently heartwarming journey, one which will teach the value of families and friendships look like, the importance of consent and a good sex education.I haven’t read a Jacqueline Wilson book in a few years and it was lovely to read one targeted at older readers.

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She has also won numerous awards including the Guardian Children's Fiction Award for The Illustrated Mum; the Smarties Prize, the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the Children's Book Award for Double Act; The Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award in 1995 for The Bed and Breakfast Star; and the 2002 Blue Peter People's Choice Award for The Story of Tracy Beaker. Met her on Saturday and she is just how she seems in her interviews which is a pleasant surprise i dont think my inner child would ever have healed if she was a bitch. Gripping, emotional and the novel also includes a series of help lines if anyone has been affected by incidents in the narrative. Both Belinda and Jeannie take the younger Laura under their wing during her stay at Heathcote House. Belinda is a sweet girl who dreams of raising her son with her boyfriend in the bar that her father owns but reality hits her hard when she learns her boyfriend hasn't been faithful to her and then she's forced into giving her son up for adoption.Naive and unprepared for the adult world but desperate to prove that she's no longer a little girl, Laura ends up falling pregnant during a confusing sexual encounter with an older boy. Set in the 1960’s, Jacqueline Wilson transports you back in time, to the days of Elvis and the ‘swinging sixties’.

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Laura and Nina's friendship begins to falter in the next few months as Laura realises how controlling her friend is. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. The winners of The Farshore Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards 2023, highlighting the work schools are doing to encourage a love of reading, have.Darkest Hour: Laura has to meet her social worker who wants her to give up Kathy for adoption and she's running out of time to find a way where she can keep Kathy and be able to raise her safely.