Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
Overall winner of the Smarties Book Prize 1995. Ruby and Garnet are twins. Since their mother died they have lived with Dad and Gran, but now nasty Rose is moving in, and they must deal with their new home and new mother, who turns out not to be so nasty after all.
JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known and hugely popular author. THE ILLUSTRATED MUM was chosen as British Children's Book of the Year in 1999 and was winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2000. Jacqueline has won the prestigious Smarties Prize and the Children's Book Award for DOUBLE ACT, which was also highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. Jacqueline was awarded an OBE in 2002. * 'A brilliant young writer of wit and subtlety' THE TIMES 'Hugely popular with seven to ten year olds- she should be prescribed for all cases of reading reluctance' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Has a rare gift for writing lightly and amusingly about emtional issues' BOOKSELLER
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ISBN 13 | 9780440863342 |
ISBN 10 | 0440863341 |
Title | Double Act |
Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
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Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
Year published | 1996-05-02 |
Number of pages | 192 |
Prizes | Winner of Children's Book Award 1996, Winner of Federation of Children's Books of the Year Award 1996, Winner of Sheffield Children's Book Awards - Short Novels 1996, Winner of Smarties Book Prize 1995, Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003, Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 |
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