Love Frankie

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I picked up this book as it was the first JW book to have a LGBTQ+ storyline since she herself came out as gay, which is a trait that I myself share. Jacqueline's books include The Story of Tracy Beaker, which has become a hugely successful BBC TV series; Girls in Love, which together with its two sequels was filmed for ITV television; and Double Act, which she adapted for Channel 4 and which won the Royal TV Society's Best Children's Fiction Award. As a teenager she started work for a magazine publishing company and then went on to work as a journalist on Jackie magazine (which she was told was named after her! With this new book, although I'm a bit older than Frankie, I can empathise with her situation and actually, it's written so well that I'm now at an age where I can see the perspective from the adults' point of view. I look forward to seeing what both of them do individually in the future, but I will miss the pairing.

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Ultimately, this is a book for pre-teens and teenagers, and so they will be the best judge of whether it works, not me.One of Jacqueline’s most successful and enduring creations has been the famous Tracy Beaker, who first appeared in 1991 in The Story of Tracy Beaker. Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, and spent her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, where she still lives today. As I say, the protagonist is pretty innocent and the worst she gets up to is a bit of underage drinking (I was struck by how different Wilson's portrayal of Y9 girls was in her much older Girls trilogy - this is not nearly as hard-hitting). When I learned that Jacqueline Wilson had written a novel about a young girl falling for another girl, I was so excited. I’d highly, highly recommend Love Frankie, particularly to fans of Jacqueline’s teen books such as Kiss and Love Lessons.

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At 13 years old with her first love, Frankie is only just maturing and navigating her life as a young gay teen.I felt that I could relate to the feelings Frankie was facing; first love is first love regardless of gender, and that Jacqueline, as usual, really captured what it’s like to be a teenager and have all these different feelings and emotions and challenges.