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Opal Plumstead

Suitable for 9 – 11 years

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Waited ages for Jacky to do a World War One book? Result! Suffragettes, factory smoke, love and hope in a time of darkness. Even better than Hetty. A brand new gem of a story in trademark Jacky style. Fiercely smart but trapped in a factory. In love, but thwarted by war. Opal dreams of a scholarship to university. But when her dad is sent to prison, she has to start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory instead. The other workers despise her. Yet Mrs Roberts, the factory’s elegant owner, introduces Opal to the legendary Mrs Pankhurst and her fellow Suffragettes. At last, Opal has an outlet for her wit and fire. Her joy seems complete when she meets her soulmate: Morgan, the handsome heir to Fairy Glen. But war is coming, and it will change everything…

Product Details

Format

Hardback

ISBN

9780857531094

Publisher

Doubleday Children's Books

Date published

October 9th, 2014

Lexile measure

790L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.4; Middle years; 18.0 points

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Jacqueline Wilson

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Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first “novel” when she was nine, filling countless Woolworths’ exercise books as she grew up. Since having her daughter, Emma, she has been writing full time.

Her insightful and emotionally challenging books not only stretch reading ability, but give young readers a glimpse into many kinds of lives. Smart girls, strong girls, bad girls, brave girls. Girls keeping their families going, girls trying to get away… Jacqueline Wilson’s written about them all! These powerful stories of plucky girls in difficult circumstances won’t fail to strike a chord.

She has written over 70 best-selling books, and several have even been adapted for TV – most famously The Story of Tracy Beaker. Her signing sessions attract huge crowds of fans and last for hours! Over 25 million copies of her books have now been sold in the UK alone.

In 2007 Jacky Daydream was published, an inspirational true story of how a shy schoolgirl became a superstar author. This was followed by My Secret Diary, a captivating account of Jacky’s teenage years.

In June 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools, and she was the Children’s Laureate from 2005-2007. She also became a Dame in December 2007.

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  1. puppydog2
    on 20 July 2016

    I loved it. I t was so cool the way it was wrote like it was from Opals point of view. I LOVED it but it was also very sad.

  2. TheNamesDulcie
    on 11 February 2015

    Amazing, even my mum loved it :) Any ages between 9-13. My mum always compares Opal and Cassie to me and my eighteen yea old sister Chloe ;D

    5 out of 5

  3. lovereading2002
    on 22 December 2014

    This book really brought out the best of Jacqueline Wilson. It shocked me with the sadness. Made me laugh, cry and I found that it was really fact-based and this was the first book I read on The Suffragettes!

  4. JapaneseStar
    on 26 October 2014

    Such a good book! I would love to have Morgan as my sweetheart he seems so kind and caring! So much drama in this book but I loved it anyway! 😉

    5 out of 5