Product Description

This is the second of three books about teenage girls from author Jacqueline Wilson. Ellie, Nadine and Magda are best friends. They are in Year Nine, and their lives are dominated by boys.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #227358 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Jacqueline Wilson:
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.

* '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 emtional issues' BOOKSELLER

Customer Reviews

Absolutely Brilliant!
From the start, this novel encapsulates the typical teenage world with the full on obsession of appearance in three different ways - you'll be able to associate yourself with atleast one! Firstly, there's Nadine - the effortlessly gorgeous teen with a unique, dark sense of style. Then, Magda - the flawless looker who attracts all the boys with her up-to-date fashion sense. And finally - Ellie. The story is portrayed through her eyes and we experience her difficulties. She compares herself with her two best friends and eventually finds herself drowning down tireless efforts to lose weight. She also befriends a girl she meets down the swimming pool who also experiences the same. Ellie becomes Bulimic and eventually, after seeing the harsh consequences her friend goes through understands the dangers.

Jacqueline Wilson gives us this story in excellent form. I've always wanted to read about Bulimia and Anorexia after understanding what a friend of mine was going through but I never found the motivation to actively find out and research the topic. Wilson presents the book in a disguised manner and we're then shocked as we understand the slight occurance can be a trigger - which is the reality of this frightening disease.

great book!
I loved this book. I thought it was definitely better than the first one even though i liked that one too. I could totally relate to the way Ellie was feeling about being fat. I never had an eating disorder, but i did feel the same way at one point. Girls under pressure deals with a serious issue but is still funny and was an enjoyable read.

Absolutely Fantastic
There is no other way you can describe this book. This book tells the story of the slightly overweight teenager Ellie. She feels outshadowed by her skinny and "boy magnet" friends Magda and Nadine. When a girl at the shopping mall tells Ellie that she is fat it is the last straw and she goes on a diet and ends up developing an eating disorder.

THis is a very real story about eating disorders one that anyone who has had friends with eating disorders can relate to very well. Although there are some very low moments in Ellies story you put the book down feeling very refreshed.

A must read for teenage girl with low self confidence - or anyone really