Girls In Tears

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One quote that's always stuck out to me is "I wish he would see me as Ellie the person, not Ellie the body. Girls in Tears is the fourth and final book that follows teenager Ellie and her two friends, Magda and Nadine. Nadine has turned into a selfish, snobby person overnight, Magda is ridiculously shallow and vain, and Russell has gone from being a little hot-headed and controlling to a plain horrible boyfriend, even downright stealing Ellie's design.

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. There's a subplot about her having a creepy online boyfriend and thankfully that's done right with the girls learning you never know who you can trust. Magda's lost her pet and is desperately upset (though the others didn't even know she still had a hamster! This time around, Ellie has to watch as all of the key relationships in her life start to fall apart.A superb fourth instalment in the GIRLS series, following GIRLS IN LOVE, GIRLS UNDER PRESSURE and GIRLS OUT LATE. None of the books in this series have aged well but this was definitely my least favourite of the 4. While she says "no" there's no exploration of this or reward/punishment - they attend a party where she drinks straight vodka to teach them all a lesson and gets trashed. I think its a really good way to explain to young girls that good looking and having a boy friend isn't everything! The book focuses on Ellie and Russell's completely toxic relationship which is presented as really romantic and the ending is contrived and too obvious (Nadine's internet boyfriend turns out to be a 50 year old man, shock horror) and Ellie gets back with a man that constantly puts her down, objectifies her, and cheated on her with her best friend(!

The whole thing is just awful and I'm glad I read it at 35 not as a young impressionable girl because I'm not sure what messages I would have taken away from it but none of them would have been good! Her books are great at getting children to really think about actions and their consequences, really opening the eyes of children to the world. Ten-year-old British twins Ruby and Garnet take turns narrating this broad comedy, a winner of the Smarties Prize; PW described it as ""an unexceptional mix of familiar plot devices. Wilson is great at making realistic characters that you can quickly come to term with, giving realistic reactions to events.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. After being one of the best book series ever in my opinion, this was where the Girls series came crashing down.