Best Friends

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However, Gemma received the most punishment, being the more boisterous of the two, was always deemed as the trouble maker and was forbidden to see Alice. Billy ' Biscuits' Mcvitie: The girls' schoolfriend, a large, tubby boy who loves food, both eating and cooking. Gemma the main character is heartborken when she discovers that Alice and her family are moving away to Scotland. I think that it is easy to relate to for children as it deals with the complex world of friendships and break ups and how they are dealt with. Soon, when Alice's family throws a good bye party, and Gemma and her family attend, Gemma brings takes Alice so that they could run away so that she could be with Alice, and that is what gets Gemma and Alice into an enormous amount of trouble.

Girls keeping their families going, girls trying to get away… Jacqueline Wilson’s written about them all!In Best Friends, Gemma and Alice have been together since birth - literally, they were born on the same day and have been inseparable ever since, despite being complete opposites (Gemma is loud, selfish, and bossy, while Alice is timid, meek, and sensible). As a teenager she started work for a magazine publishing company and then went on to work as a journalist on Jackie magazine (which she was told was named after her!

This book "best friends" is a delightful and fun story full of new complications at every turn of a page. If you've got a best friend you will be able to imagine how Gemma and Alice feel when Alice's parents decide to move a long way away, to Scotland: I took a deep breath, as if I was about to blow out all the candles on my birthday cake all by myself for the first time. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I think that this book was really amazing as I'm a BIG fan of Jacqueline Wilson (n I actually mean it! The children would be able to relate to the strength of Gemma and Alice’s friendship and the sadness they feel when they are separated.

Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings. This book is a must read because it is so easy to relate to and really sends a message out to children that things can get better from where they are, you jut need to push through and things will go nicely for you. The girls are about to be separated as one family is moving, so they first decide to run away then create havoc when that is stopped.

Jacqueline is one of the nation’s favourite authors, and her books are loved and cherished by young readers not only in the UK but all over the world. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.The two are polar opposites; Gemma is a tomboy who likes playing wild and exciting sports, while Alice is girly and loves ballet and the color pink. so now they have to do something to make them still have a tight friendship that could last a whole life time and try and stop them from breaking apart from each other. In this book Biscuits' surname is McVitie, but in Cliffhanger his surname is Baker, as Tim wrote a postcard to him with the name as Mr "Biscuits" Baker; this may be due to the fact that Gemma hates Biscuits, and McVitie's are a biscuits company, so she might be making fun out of him. When Alice's mother tells Gemma's family that they all are moving to Scotland from England because there was a better job for Alice's dad, Gemma is heartbroken. This book is about two girls who are almost complete opposite to one another, they are best friends but unfortunately one of them moves to Scotland, as they are so upset by this they runaway together but they get cought!