My Sister Jodie
The Sunday Age
Sunday June 15, 2008
Jacqueline Wilson
Random House, $32.95Sisters Pearl and Jodie have little in common except perhaps the most important thing of all - they love each other. Pearl is shy and self-conscious while Jodie is brash, popular and outspoken. She stays out late, dances with boys at the under-age disco and drinks. Pearl is in awe of her older sibling and feels safe hiding in her shadow as her parents fuss and fight over what will become of their wayward daughter. But when her parents both get jobs (Dad, the caretaker, Mum, the cook) at a posh boarding school in the middle of nowhere, Jodie and Pearl are in for a shock. At Melchester, Pearl blossoms in a new world full of books, while Jodie, for the first time in her life, struggles to fit in. A compelling tear-jerker for early teens.
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