Clean Break

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Dorry in Katy has a huge appetite and will eat pretty much anything. Katy discovers he kept a "diary" that was basically just a list of what he ate that day.

Tracy and Cam concoct a 'charm to be with a loved one on a festive occasion' for Christmas. Tracy neglects to mention her mother's name during it and ends up spending the day with Cam. She later wonders if she was Cam's loved one and if the charm actually did work.

Other books include:

Driven to Suicide - April's adoptive mother in Dustbin Baby, Tina in Falling Apart, and Tanya's mother in Bad Girls.

Sixteen-year-old Cassie in Opal Plumstead falls in love with Daniel Evandale, who is more than twice her age. This reaches a climax when Cassie runs away to live with him, since her mother disapproves. Distant Finale: The epilogue of Queenie takes place sixty years after the main events of the story. Later that day Em overhears a conversation her dad is having and realises that he is having a secret affair. Em confronts her father, and he owns up to his cheating, and by the next morning he has left.

Market-Based Title: Elsa, Star of the Shelter was changed to The Bed and Breakfast Star in reprints, to reflect the change in accommodation offered to families like Elsa's. It's implied that Tracy Beaker was abused by her mother's boyfriends before being taken into care. Tracy also mentions that before going to the "Dumping Ground", she lived with "Aunt" Peggy: a foster carer who frequently hit her and yelled at her. Ellen (Gran) – Em, Vita and Maxie's grandmother and Julie's mother who tends to get very stroppy at times. However, she really wants the very best for her family, and seeing her beloved daughter and grandchildren feeling so sad and hopeless is purely heartbreaking for her. She holds a strong grudge against Frankie (their Dad), but she also wishes she could wave a magic wand and make everything alright. In This Girl, Deb gives a little speech about how she refused to have an abortion on moral grounds, even though this left her as a penniless teenage single mother.

Goods that by reason of their nature, cannot be returned - (Items such as underwear, where the 'hygiene patch' has been removed, or cosmetics where the seal has been broken). Hopeless with Tech: Quite a few characters in these novels are, presumably because it's not the author's strong suit either, though in some cases it's justified, as in Love Lessons, Prudence explains her father is ridiculously old-fashioned and can barely stand having a phone, let alone a T.V or computer. Girl on Girl Is Hot: Apparently, all the high school boys in Love Frankie think this. When they hear about Frankie and Sally's kiss on New Years, they all want them to kiss again so they can watch. One boy even asks Frankie out just because he wants details. Big Sister Instinct: Jude tries to protect her youngest sister, Dixie. She endlessly argues with Rochelle, though.

This comes up in Emerald Star when Hetty chooses to go with the circus despite Jem's offer to marry her. Canon Foreigner: The Tracy Beaker TV series introduced several characters who weren't in the original books, especially in series 2 and onward once the show took a more original direction. The TV adaptation of Hetty Feather also introduces a new character called Mathias, a boy with whom Hetty conspires to organise a mass escape from the Foundling Hospital. Hetty is also given another friend named Mary, a younger girl and also gives focus on the boys in the hospital. Once the show shifts to Calender Hall, a whole new cast of characters original to the show are also introduced, leaving Hetty, Gideon, and Sheila as the only characters from the book. 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. Phoebe in The Primrose Railway Children makes up and draws a story about a nineteenth-century family, clearly based upon her own family. The main character Philomena is "breathtakingly beautiful," clever and a favourite with everybody. In The Dream Palace Lolly has an affair with Greg: an adult who's illegally "squatting" in an abandoned building and walks out on his previous girlfriend for her. He then stabs and seriously wounds her stepfather, forcing Lolly to go on the run with Greg, who suggests she become a prostitute to bring in money. The situation becomes so unbearable for Lolly that even though she still believes she loves Greg, she ends up handing him over to the police just to be able to return to a normal life.