Jacqueline Wilson's Funny Girls

n/a--------------------------------------------------""The Story of Tracy Beaker" I'm Tracy Beaker. This is a book all about"me. I'd read it if I were you. It's the most incredible dynamic heart-rendingstory. Honest. Shortlisted for the Smarties Prize and the CarnegieMedal the bed and breakfast star. I'm Elsa, and I'm hoping to be abig star one day. I tell jokes all the time to try and cheer my familyup. Trouble is, no-one seems to laugh much anymore. Not since we lostour lovely house and had to move into a bed and breakfast hotel...winnerof The Young Telegraph Fully Booked Award.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known andhugely popular author who served as Children's Laureate from 2005-7.She has been awarded a number of prestigious awards, including theBritish Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's FictionAward (for The Illustrated Mum), the Smarties Prize and the Children'sBook Award (for Double Act, for which she was also highly commendedfor the Carnegie Medal). In 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for servicesto literacy in schools and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. She wasthe author most borrowed from British libraries in the last decade.'A brilliant writer of wit and subtlety' THE TIMES 'She should be prescribedfor all cases of reading reluctance' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Has a raregift for writing lightly and amusingly about emotional issues' BOOKSELLER