Cliffhanger (Biscuit Barrel, 2)

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In This Girl, Deb gives a little speech about how she refused to have an abortion on moral grounds, even though this left her as a penniless teenage single mother.

Sylvie in Kiss believes she's in love with her friend Carl and that they will get married when they grow up. As they become teenagers, Sylvie clings to her image of him, unable to understand that he's changing as a person and has fallen for a guy. Although they aren't actually related, Hetty and Diamond consider themselves sisters and Hetty is very protective of Diamond. Falling Apart implies Simon may have lost interest in Tina because he's secretly in a relationship with his friend Adam. In the same book, he says he didn't try to ask out her sister Jan because Jan (heavily suggested to be a lesbian) obviously wouldn't accept.

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In Cookie, Beauty considers not inviting Skye to her birthday party and tearing up the invitation in front of her class, but sees how desperate she is to attend and invites her, despite how mean she is.

Pet the Dog: At the end of The Story of Tracy Beaker, Tracy gives Justine her favorite pen despite the latter being so nasty.In The Suitcase Kid, Andy's stepfather Bill is likened to a baboon, with his hairy body and squashed, monkey-like face; Andy even thinks he has a large, red posterior like a baboon. Hetty Feather does this twice: looking for her mother in Hetty Feather, and her father in Emerald Star. She finds both. Clover Moon, Rose Rivers, and The Lottie Project all contain examples of this due to large families being common in the Victorian era. Hippie Parents: In Amber, Amber was raised in a commune by her hippie mother and is still there even though the '60s are long over. She is desperate for a "normal" home and lifestyle, which drives a lot of the story's conflict.