My Sister Jodie

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Floss in Candyfloss sees her half-brother Tiger mainly as this, though she acknowledges that it's not his fault as he is just a baby and softens up to him when she realises she'll miss him in Australia.

My Sister Jodie by Jacqueline Wilson (9780385610124/Hardback My Sister Jodie by Jacqueline Wilson (9780385610124/Hardback

This trope causes her to use a minor accident at the pool as an excuse to quit diving so that she can attend parties and hang out with boys like a regular girl of her age. When their parents get new jobs at a grand, fusty old boarding school, Melchester College, the girls have to move there - and when they arrive, things start to change. The only thing Kay and I would say is that we think about them every day and they are in our thoughts and prayers every day,” Mr Crawford said. We went through everything together and she was always there for me and always putting everyone before herself. She met Danny Kilman, the famous rock star she had a crush on, at one of his gigs when she was eighteen, leading to Destiny's conception.

She is then asked to stop telling the children bed-time stories, a job which Pearl is offered instead. Hetty Feather does this twice: looking for her mother in Hetty Feather, and her father in Emerald Star. Martha in The Longest Whale Song repeatedly taunts Ella that her mother will be in a coma indefinitely but after seeing how her mother and stepfather treat her, Ella realises that she's being horrible because she's unhappy. Frankie's grandma in Love Frankie also advises her grandchildren to address their dad's fiancée as such.

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This is the catalyst that prompts him to hit her for the first time and for Nikki to run away with the kids. National Stereotypes: Referenced and averted in Secrets when India says that you might think her au pair, who's Australian, would be cheerful, suntanned and outgoing. Insinuating Tracy's mum doesn't love her or isn't as cool as Tracy says she is tends to send her into a tantrum, though by the end of The Dare Game Tracy admits her mother isn't really the maternal type and chooses to go back to live with Cam. Bittersweet Ending - Things generally get better for the protagonists throughout the course of the story, but often they have to acknowledge that life isn't perfect and/or sacrifice something important by the end. The trope is lampshaded by Helen later on when she points out that most kids would only have broken an arm or leg when they fell.Several of Wilson's other heroines also have dead mothers, including Verity ( The Cat Mummy) and Ruby and Garnet ( Double Act. Kick the Dog: During an argument in Lola Rose about Jake, Lola Rose points out that he's closer to her age than he is to her mum's.

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In Rent a Bridesmaid, Tilly mentions that "Auntie" Sue who takes care of her after school is not related to her, just a friend of her dad. Because he does not want to spend the summer holidays with his mother and stepfather, he stays at Melchester. In the Girls series, Ellie has a crush on a handsome guy who turns out to be gay, leading to embarrassment for her when she pretends to her friends that he is her boyfriend Dan (the real Dan being awkward and nerdy.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.