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Bestselling British author who has written a huge amount of novels for children and teenagers. Most of them are about a specific theme or problem that young people might face. The 1970s magazine ''Jackie'' may or may not have been named after her, depending on who you ask. As well as winning a truckload of awards, she was the Children's Laureate between 2005 and 2007, and was named in the 2008 Honours List.▼
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▲Bestselling British author who has written a huge amount of novels for children and teenagers. Most of them are about a specific theme or problem that young people might face. The 1970s magazine ''Jackie'' may or may not have been named after her, depending on who you ask. As well as winning a truckload of awards, she was the Children's Laureate between 2005 and 2007, and was named in the 2008 Honours List.
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* Tracy Beaker Series: ''The Story of Tracy Beaker'', ''The Dare Game'', ''Starring Tracy Beaker'', ''Tracy Beaker's Thumping Heart''
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* ''The Suitcase Kid''
* ''The Bed and Breakfast Star''
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Several of her books have been adapted for TV. She has been criticized because she speaks out against the loss of childhood, but many of her novels have a foul-mouthed delinquent as the protagonist.
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* [[Abusive Parents]] - the titular heroine of ''Cookie'' has a father who borders on this, and is certainly abusive to his wife. There's also Elsa's stepfather (nicknamed "Mack the Smack" because he hits her) in ''The Bed and Breakfast Star'', Mary's mother in ''The Diamond Girls'', Treasure's stepfather in ''Secrets'' and, it is implied, Prue's father in ''Love Lessons''
** ''The Worry Website'' also has Lisa's dad, her main worry being that she finds out that he's been hitting her mum. She ends up not posting it on the website, instead saying that she's worried about starting to get spots instead.
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** In the ''Girls'' series, it is mentioned that Ellie's low self-esteem is partly due to her mother's death.
** Several of Wilson's other heroines also have dead mothers, including Verity (''The Cat Mummy'') and Ruby and Garnet (''Double Act''.) Tracy Beaker, who was abandoned by her mother, may count as well, and Allison in ''The Other Side'' whose mother is mentally ill and goes into hospital at the start of the book.
* [[Moral Guardians]] - Referenced [[In
* [[The Munchausen]] - Tracy Beaker, sort of. The tall tales she tells are about her mother rather than herself.
* [[Near-Death Clairvoyance]] - Vicky in ''Vicky Angel''
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* [[Parental Favoritism]]
* [[Parental Neglect]] - Happens a lot. The most obvious example is ''Dustbin Baby'' where April's mother, who had serious depression, could not look after her and left the five or six-year-old April to attempt to cook for herself, do her own washing and get herself to school. ''Lily Alone'' centres around a child who is left alone in the house with toddler siblings because their mother goes on holiday and the designated babysitter does not show up. Several other stories have very young protagonists who are left to look after younger siblings alone while the parents work long hours or (in ''The Bed and Breakfast Star'') just sleep all day.
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** An early novel that Wilson based on this theme was ''Amber'', in which the title character struggles to lead a normal life in spite of her mother's irresponsible hippy/"groupie" lifestyle.
* [[Plucky Girl]]
* [[Promotion to Parent]] - Sadie in ''The Mum-Minder'', who must take over her ailing mother's childminding duties for a week. Jayni/Lola gets this to some extent in ''Lola Rose'' when her mother goes into hospital, leaving her alone to take care of her little brother.
** Star in ''The Illustrated Mum'' mentions having raised Dolphin for most of her life despite only being three or so years older than her.
* [[Raised
* [[Replacement Goldfish]] - in ''Midnight'', the heroine's brother {{spoiler|was adopted because he looked exactly like their parents' first baby, who died}}
* [[Retcon]] - Billy "Biscuits" gets a change of surname between ''Buried Alive/Cliffhanger'' (his first appearances) and ''Best Friends'', where he reappears as a main character in a book unrelated to the previous two.
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* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]] - Violet and Will (''Midnight''), Pearl and Jodie (''My Sister Jodie''), Dolphin and Star (''The Illustrated Mum''), Garnet and Ruby (''Double Act''). All the sisters in ''The Diamond Girls'' are examples, but particularly between Dixie and Rochelle.
* [[Signature Style]] - Recurring themes in Wilson's books include broken homes, the heroine wanting to be a writer or artist, part of the story being set in a museum or art gallery, and the main character making friends with a social outcast. Wilson also tends to repeatedly use "though" in place of "but".
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Stacy's Mom]] - Mr "Rax" Raxberry in ''Love Lessons'', Coral's employer in ''This Girl''
* [[Start My Own]] - In ''The Left-Outs'', a group of kids who didn't get speaking parts in the school play decide to put on their own production.
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