Product Description

A wonderfully written and engaging memoir of Jacqueline Wilson's life as a teenager - her problems with her family, first love, her school life and her friends. Read extracts from her real secret teenage diaries and the stories she wrote as a teenager, to build up a fascinating picture of a real teenager and her inner life. Covering issues as diverse as the songs she danced to and the way she created beehive hairdos to her troubled school life and her parents' problematic relationship. This follows on from the massive success of Jacky Daydream, her first memoir. Written in Jacqueline's usual and inimitable style, this will be fascinating reading for her fans, and for anyone who's interested in life in the UK in the Fifties and Sixties.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6556 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-12
• Released on: 2009-03-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 309 pages

From the Inside Flap
In 1960, you’d wear stiff petticoats and dancing shoes. Now you’d wear jeans and trainers.

In 1960, you’d spend hours listening to records in your local store. Now, you’d spend hours listening to music online.
In 1960 you’d learn all the steps to the latest dances.
Now, you just make up your own moves.
But girls always 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.
A wonderfully written and engaging memoir of life as a teenager. Includes original photos of Jacqueline and her friends.

From the Back Cover
‘Ever since I was little, I have loved writing stories and poems. I would get an idea, buy a new exercise book, and start writing industriously, thinking myself the creator of a masterpiece. But by the end of the week I would think of another better idea and repeat the rigmarole. But now I have the better idea of writing a diary, as I hope I will never get sick of my own life . . . I’m only very ordinary, admittedly, but interesting things do sometimes happen to me.’
JACQUELINE WILSON, AGED 14
In My Secret Diary, Jacqueline shares her most innermost thoughts and feelings from the year she was 14, through extracts of her own real diary from 1960.

About the Author
JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known and hugely popular author. THE ILLUSTRATED MUM was chosen as British Children's Book of the Year in 1999 and was winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2000. Jacqueline has won the prestigious Smarties Prize and the Children's Book Award for DOUBLE ACT, which was also highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. Jacqueline was awarded an OBE in 2002, was the Children's Laureate for 2005-2007 and was made a Dame in 2008. * 'A brilliant young writer of wit and subtlety' THE TIMES. * 'Hugely popular with seven to ten year olds: she should be prescribed for all cases of reading reluctance' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY. * 'Has a rare gift for writing lightly and amusingly about emotional issues' BOOKSELLER

Customer Reviews

Great read.

I purchased this book for my 15 year old daughter.
This is the first Jacqueline Wilson book she has read,
and she really enjoyed it.

It made a change from reading books by her favorite
authors: Neil Gaiman, J K Rowling, and Philip Pulman
to name but a few.

The book is all about Jacqueline's life, when she was 14
years old, and deals with the usual teenage girl issues.

I highly recommend this book, not only for steadfast fans,
but as a great introduction to Jacqueline's work.

My Secret Diary by Jacqueline Wilson
A great buy for avid Jacqueline Wilson (JW) fans and would-be fans!

I bought this for my 11 year old bookworm as an alternative to an Easter Egg. She loved it, really wanted to share details about JW's life with me; and felt it really lent itself to her understanding of JW's motivation for some of the characters in her books.

My daughter particularly liked the fact that Jacqueline was 'different' as a young girl. I think this is because she isn't a typical girl and as we parents know, it's not always easy for young girls to embrace being different when most of them aspire to be just like everyone else). However, I've noticed her embracing her uniqueness in a big way for the past couple of weeks!!

Please note that my daughter is a complete JW addict so I am not suggesting the book as a confidence building tool, I'm just sharing what she got from it.

My Secret Diary
My secret diary is Jacqueline Wilson's newest book and is an autobiography of her teenage years. It is a not a sequel to Jackie Daydream (an autobiography of her childhood.) I found this easy to relate to as I'm a teenager and I feel I understand what she went through but I wouldn't recomend this to fans under 10 or 11 as much. I feel this is not her best but sure to please!