Clean Break

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In Love Lessons, Prue's affair with Mr. Raxberry is exposed when Sarah, a student with an intellectual disability, tells everyone that she saw them kissing. Sarah doesn't understand that this isn't supposed to happen, and even Prue (who is otherwise selfish and aggressive) can't be angry with her. Aunt Barbara in Lola Rose is an eccentric woman who wears colourful clothes and has many exciting stories about her life and travels. Jayni/Lola and Kenny see her as this trope, especially when she uses her skill in Thai boxing to get their abusive father to leave.

Dancing The Charleston has an example: Mona's "aunt" is really her mother and just pretended to be an aunt to cover up her illegitimate pregnancy. I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.” Parental Favoritism: Ellie worries that Eggs is both her father's and Anna's favourite. Nadine thinks that her sister Natasha is their parents' favorite, given that her mother is less harsh on Natasha than on Nadine herself. Eye Scream: In Emerald Star, Gideon is discharged from the army because he lost an eye in the course of duty (and is close to losing the sight in the other one.) This apparently happened due to having so much guilt about shooting another man that he kept seeing it, so he attempted to blind himself.Rebecca casts a 'curse' on a girl she dislikes in Glubbslyme, then feels awful when she twists her ankle and brings has a magical "poppet" to fix it. The main character is a young girl called Emily, or Princess Emerald to her imaginative Dad, who lives with her mum Julie, her six-year-old half-sister Vita and her three-year-old half-brother Maxie in their grandmother Ellen's house. Although her dad is technically only her step-dad, Em and her siblings all love him completely. Emily is highly sensitive (as a lot of characters are), and is very insecure about her weight. On Christmas Day Emily and Vita and Maxie receive their presents. Vita gets a special reindeer hand-puppet which they name Dancer, Maxie gets a set of felt tip pens and Em gets an emerald ring. Later that day Em overhears a conversation her dad is having and realizes that he is having a secret affair. Emily confronts her father, and he owns up to his cheating, and by the next morning he has left. Karma Houdini: It's mainly due to Rule of Drama, but schools and teachers in Wilson's books get away with murder, at least by modern day standards. Apparently nobody thinks to lodge a complaint against bullying or abusive teachers, so the main characters just suffer in silence. In Double Act, Ruby cuts all her hair to make her look different from her twin sister. This signals how the twins are starting to become more individual. Garnet tries to copy Ruby but Ruby threatens her not to. Astral Projection - Important to the plot of The Other Side, although it's left open to the reader as to whether it's real or just in the heroine's imagination.

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Wilson's earlier novels were more prone to the Downer Ending; since she hit the big time with the first Tracy Beaker book, a Bittersweet Ending is more common. Jacqueline Wilson's particular talent is to find a bittersweetness in the dysfunctional families she describes. Her books are both hard and marshmallow-soft. Her stories traverse the gap between childhood's dreams and treats and messy adult realities. 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.

Barbara in Deep Blue is very close to her father, who has been coaching her to become an Olympic diving champion from a very early age. Part of the book's central conflict is her regret about ruining their bond after she decides she wants to give up diving. Examples include The Suitcase Kid where every chapter is named after a letter of the alphabet, starting with 'A is for Andy' and ending with 'Z is for Zoe' Annoying Younger Sibling: Many characters qualify with this, such as Vita and Maxie to Em in "Clean Break" and Kenny to Jayni in "Lola Rose". Sometimes the protagonists only see them as this because they are often made to look after them on their own. Meaningful Name - In The Illustrated Mum, it turns out that Dolphin was named for the fact that her father was the one who finally taught Marigold how to swim. This is especially heartwarming because Marigold claims to not remember much about him. Clean Break is a novel by Jacqueline Wilson, originally published in 2005, revolving around a young girl called Emily, otherwise known as Em, dealing with her step-father's affair and eventual abandonment of his family to be with his affair partner.

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Huge Schoolgirl - Ellie, who is embarrassed about her weight and large bust. Nadine, who's mentioned as very tall, may also count. Katy in Katy is also stated to be exceptionally tall for her age, although this is less noticeable after she has to use a wheelchair. Companion Cube: Vita, Em's younger sister, has a toy reindeer called Dancer, which she carries around like a comfort blanket. Later that day Em overhears a conversation her dad is having and realises that he is having a secret affair. Em confronts her father, and he owns up to his cheating, and by the next morning he has left. In Clean Break Em is reunited with her stepfather but comes to an understanding that things cannot be the same between him and the family again. She even tells her mum that "wishes never come true the way you want." Naked First Impression: Although Kitty and Lucy briefly meet early in the story, their true first meeting is just after a woman has stolen all the clothes Lucy was wearing. Kitty finds it amusing, but she's also sympathetic.