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Bad Girls By Jacqueline Wilson This book is about a girl called Mandy who is getting bullied at school by these girls called Kim, Melanie and Sarah for as long as she can remember. Mandy has blonde platted hair, a yellow top with a green cardigan with yellow rabbits on it and a blue, demin skirt. She also wears glasses.

Then one day this girl called Tanya moves into the house across the street. Mandy really wants her to be her friend because she is so cool. Tanya has orange, spiky hair; she wears short shorts, a tank top and clacky, red high heel shoes. Then when Mandy and Tanya start going into town together Mandy’s mum thinks Tanya is a bad girl and a bad influence. Mandy thinks Tanya can only get her out of trouble not into it… or could she. If you want to read more get this book out from the public library or borrow it from a friend. I rate this book 9/10 and I recommend this book for people for 9 years and over. By Tessa.

Title: Diana Kimpton by: Amber  She has always made up stories. When she was a child, she did it in my head - usually using characters from her favourite TV programmes. She left school and became a math’s teacher which she didn't like. Then she left teaching and became a mother which she loved. In the time left over from mothering, she became a writer which she found was enormous fun. New writers are often advised to 'write what they know' and that's certainly how she started. Her first book was // A Special Child in the Family //. Horses helped her write // The Pony-Mad Princess series //. She loves making people laugh and her sense of humour often creeps into my writing, it’s definitely why she likes writing scripts for animation - cartoon stories. 

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> My Secret Diary Jacqueline Wilson This book is about Jacqueline Wilson’s life when she was 14. She has had ups and downs during her high school years but her life is like any other persons so she wasn’t that different than me or you, but now she is a famous writer. She went to high school in 1960 so you can imagine what things will be different. 1960 you would wear stiff petticoats and dancing shoes. Now, you’d wear stuff like jeans and sneakers. In 1960 you would spend hours listening to records in your local store. Now, you would spend hours listening to music online. In 1960 you would learn all the steps to the latest dances. Now, you would just make up your own moves. But girls have and always will have crushes on boys, argue with their parents, get embarrassed at school, want to stay out with their friends and spend hours fixing their hair. The chapters in this book are little parts of her life. For instance some chapters are about her friends, some are about movies and some are about school. Some of my favourite chapters in this book are school, Chris, Carol, films and boys, boys, boys J. To me, this book is wonderfully written about life as a teenager. This book includes original photos of Jacqueline and her friends. Illustrated by Nick Sharratt.

By Tessa.

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Margaret Mahy <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #9041cb; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold',sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Children's author Margaret Mahy was born in 1936. She grew up with English classics like //<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold',sans-serif;">Winnie the Pooh // <span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #9041cb; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold',sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">. <span style="color: #9041cb; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold',sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"> Margaret Mahy, was a great reader, wrote her first story aged seven. <span style="color: #9041cb; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold',sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">After graduating from university and library school, she worked for the School Library Service, Her nickname was Mahy. She began writing stories for the //<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold',sans-serif;">School Journal //while raising two young children on her own. In 1969 her first book, //<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold',sans-serif;">A Lion in the Meadow //, was published. Mahy took up full-time writing in 1980. Her work has been translated into 15 languages and won uncountable national and international awards. Mahy's first time in screenwriting came in 1981, when she contributed to puppet series <span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #9041cb; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold',sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"> //Woolly Valley// <span style="color: #9041cb; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold',sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">. In 1988 Television New Zealand approached Mahy to come up with an idea for a children's series. Starting from the idea of a family that becomes aware someone is taking over it. By Amber