Lola Rose
by Jacqueline Wilson
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When life with Jayni's violent-tempered father becomes too frightening to cope with, Jayni, her mum and her little brother Kenny are forced to escape in the middle of the night. Slipping out of the house unseen, travelling up to London by train and checking into a hotel - it's almost like playing an elaborate game. They even make up false identities to protect their secret, and Jayni becomes the glamorous-sounding Lola Rose. But when money runs out and reality bites, what will they do next?Tags
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This book really annoyed me. I hated the characters, except for Auntie Barbara who was big, loud and loveable. I wanted to shake the mother on more than one occasion and tell her to grow up, Kenny (the younger brother) was a wuss, the father was abusive and Jayni was just plain irritating. Very pleased to reach to end!!
This was quite a good story, especially for children who might be going through similar things.
This book was a great read, it had all the right mixtures of scariness, happiness etc. It was one of those books you can't put down!
I thought this book was very good. It had very good description.
KAY SCARPETTA
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Author Information
289+ Works 22,938 Members
Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath, England on December 17, 1945. She always wanted to be a writer and as a teenager, started working as a journalist for Jackie magazine. Since becoming a full-time writer, she has written numerous novels including The Dare Game; Bad Girls; The Worry Website; Lola Rose; The Diamond Girls; Clean Break; and Hetty show more Feather. Her novels have been adapted numerous times for television, and commonly deal with such difficult topics as adoption, divorce, and mental illness. She has also won numerous awards including the Guardian Children's Fiction Award for The Illustrated Mum; the Smarties Prize, the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the Children's Book Award for Double Act; The Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award in 1995 for The Bed and Breakfast Star; and the 2002 Blue Peter People's Choice Award for The Story of Tracy Beaker. In 2015 she made the New Zealand Best Seller List with her title The Butterfly Club. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Lola Rose
- Original publication date
- 2003
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- Members
- 456
- Popularity
- 66,921
- Reviews
- 5
- Rating
- (3.99)
- Languages
- 10 — Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Croatian, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 35
- ASINs
- 3
