Double Act

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Read the Play Edition of the book and use it as a starting point for work on play scripts. Could the children perform the play? I am a big Jacqueline Wilson fan and as a child read her books continuously, over and over again. Double Act is about 2 twins and there mum died when they where little and they live with their dad and Nan. But one day her dad comes home saying he has met this lady called Rose. The twins Ruby and Garnet hate her the first time she sees her, which is when their dad brings her home to have tea, out off the blue and their Nan tried her best to be nice to Rose. Then her dad suddenly announced that they where moving to the country with ROSE, and that there Nan is going to be put in a home. Ruby and Garnet hate the idea, that means that they will have to change schools and they will have to live with Rose. They start a new school and hate it. But one day they see on the notice board a poster about a modelling thing so they go there on a Saturday, but there dad find's out and Garnet get sent to a boarding school and Ruby doesn't ...

Ruby dreams of being an actress one day and sees an add in a paper for twins to take part in a commercial held in london, however Garnet dosent want to persue a career in showbiz, she prefers to studying. Nevertheless she reluctantly agrees to go along to the audition as ruby persuades her to do so. Having failed the audition ruby decides that she wants to go to boarding school because of the stage and velvet curtains, but Garnet is not so keen. The girls also find that there is a huge fee that needs to be paid for the pair of them, something which their dad cannot afford. Thy find out however that ther is one scolarship available subject to entry tests. After undertaking a tour and doing various tests its found that ruby did not get the scolarship but it was infact garnet that did. Ruby is very upset for a while amd doesnt talk to garnet. But as she leaves for boarding school they make up and promise to write to eacher often. But as for me, I don't want to know. I'm not interested in a Double Act sequel, for one perfectly good reason. Throughout the entire book it's clear that Richard is going through a sort-of early-onset mid-life crisis. Ruby has lots of confidence, but Garnet is quite shy. Discuss what these concepts mean and how they can sometimes affect the choices that we make. Phase one of the plan is an immediate success, as Richard is made redundant because of the ridiculous clothing Rose bought him, which no doubt alerted the rest of the office loud and clear that this man was going through a mid-life crisis.In fact, I've seen a lot of people lately clamouring for a sequel. "What,' they ask, "happened to the twins afterwards?" The story is told from the point of view of both girls. How is this shown in the book? How do we know which character is narrating? Double Act was "Highly Commended" runner up for the annual Carnegie Medal from the British Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. That commendation was approximately annual at the time. [1]

Wilson is a genius of a kind very few have seen this generation. Why this book didn't win the Pulitzer I will never know. This is one of the great thrillers of the 20th century - you just have to be an adult to see it. She does not let herself be around Garnet for the whole summer, and even though they both feel as though they are missing something, Ruby is too proud to apologise while Garnet wishes she was able to. After making friends with someone she previously considered rather a bully, Ruby starts to realise that she and Garnet do not need to be the same, and do not have to do the same things, to be happy. She also realises, alternately, that being together would have helped Garnet feel better about leaving. Ruby finds a friend in Rose, also, who encourages her to say sorry to Garnet. In the book, Ruby writes in a notepad she calls a MEMORANDUM. So then fate throws her another chance, and her Guardian newspaper has an advertisement for identical twin girls to audition for a TV show. She leaves it lying on the kitchen table innocently, knowing that Ruby in particular is likely to grab at it. If the twins become TV actors, they'll spend a good chunk of the summer holidays away filming, which will act as a temporary measure until she figures out how to get rid of them permanently. Sooner their dad meets a someone called rose and they end up moving to the village to open a book shop, much to the annoyance of the twin girls and their gran. The girls hate rosie and do not treat her with respect at all. From the beginning we learn that he spends his time filling the entire house with books, knowing full well that his mother-in-law has arthritis and finds it hard to get around. He brings a prospective girlfriend home without even bothering to discuss it with his daughters first (daughters who traumatically lost their mother three years previously). He then goes on to buy a shop, not thinking to take his daughters to see it first, or to even ask their opinion on a matter that has everything to do with them and will probably affect them the most. If you weren't already in awe of his selfishness, he even manages to dump his mother-in-law - who spent the last three years raising his kids for him - into sheltered accommodation. Alone.

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Double Act won the prestigious Smarties Medal and the Children’s Book Award as well as being highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. The Story of Tracy Beaker won the 2002 Blue Peter People’s Choice Award. 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. Book Genre: 20th Century, Childrens, Contemporary, Family, Fiction, Literature, Middle Grade, Novels, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Young Adult