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Best Friends

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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.

This is a very touching story on how two best friends all of sudden get spilt up, my brothers best friend sadly got separated. Gemma and Alice are both devastated at the thought of being separated, but Alice's snobbish mother claims that Alice will make new friends when they move. Not wanting this, Alice suggests that she and Gemma run away - and do so during the leaving party on the day before the move. However, Gemma grows insecure when Alice is excited to show off her new pink bedroom and large house. Having found a new friend, Alice invites Gemma to stay only for Gemma to throw a cake in the face of the new friend because she does not like her.The trouble with being a child is that you aren't really in control of the important things, and everyone likes to think they are in control of the things that matter. Lessons are present, but few and not that well learned except that a badly behaved girl can walk all over everyone. 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. Their parents allow an unhealthy obsession to persist which shows itself as control freakish, jealousy, possessiveness, obsessiveness, insecurity and selfishness. this book was a very inspiring book about these two best friends that have an friendship that could last a life time, the thing is.

In June 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools, and she was the Children’s Laureate from 2005-2007. The only reason I gave this book four stars is because I feel like the book is very short for my age and it only took me two days to read; if I was Jacqueline I would probably take at least 100 pages simply talking about all the important events they've had with each other. When the cake Gemma has made and brought is presented at dinner, Alice requests that she and Gemma cut the cake together and make their traditional wish. 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. That brings me to the writing - I normally really like JW's style but this one felt repetitive and exaggerated - perhaps I was just more aware as I listened on audio at 1.A heart-warming book about losing your best friend, this shows you how Gemma feels when Alice appeared to pal up with Flora who Gemma hates. The Illustrated Mum won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the 1999 Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and was also shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Children’s Book Award.

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