Best Friends

Gemma and Alice have been best friends for as long as they could remember. But when Alice's family move away, will they still be able to be best friends????

Gemma and Alice are best friends. Even though they are completely different. They do everything together. They know everything about each other. But one day Gemma finds out that Alice is moving away. All the way to Scotland! This fantastically written story by Jacqueline Wilson stretches friendship

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to the limit and sees if it will break. I would recommend this book to children between 7 and 16. A great read. You won't want to put it down!

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This book is ace !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by Thurso High School.

Good book about Friendship!

It's nice to see Jacqueline Wilson write about normal children with normal problems, rather than her usual quick-and-easy win of scooping out the misery-lit barrel. It's also lovely that she manages to give us a happy and uplifting story which is however frank and truthful in its treatment about

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how close friends become less close as we move away and grow up. The acid pen portraits of Alice's snobbish parents and the gentle sub-plots of relationships between the adults as well as the children are all very well done.

I was amused that JW gave in to a moment of weakness and put a 'bloody Harry Potter' rant in her own book ;-)

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I liked this book when I read it - although it's been a while since then, I was about 7 and now I'm 13. I remember liking it but at some points it was a bit slow. I remember liking one of the girls' dads, and it does stick in my brain as a good book. I should read it again soon! Haha. I recommend

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it for Primary School (elementary school) readers.

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I was pleasantly surprised by this--Wilson's books have never appealed to me, and I only picked this up because SLJ sent it to me. I didn't expect such a realistic treatment of a common childhood trauma (a friend moving away), or even the sympathetic treatment of a character who should, by rights,

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be as annoying as all get-out. (Think equal parts Ramona Quimby and Joey Pigza, and add a splash of angry temper. That's our protagonist.) The main point, which was neither as trite as I'd expected nor as ham-fisted, is that it’s perfectly okay to feel sad and angry when a friend moves away.

Full review to come in the fall some time, probably post-American publication.

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