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Anyones read.

Advantages: Gives clear warnings
Disadvantages: Sometimes you just want to scream at Ellie to eat!

Jacqueline Wilson is one of the best childrens authors around today. She started off just writing quite short stories ( Cliffhanger is one of her earlier books) and quickly became a well known and much loved childrens writer by both kids and their parents ...

kwhyte 19.10.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Girls Under Pressure - Jacqueline Wilson

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great book to read!!!!

Advantages: great book to read whenever
Disadvantages: a bit to heavy

Girls Under Preasure is a very well writen book, it makes u feel as if it's you she was writing about, it's a serious book but has very funny parts aswell, ellie the main part, is convinced she's fat, she goes about losing weight in all the wrong ways, sh ...

sophie14 03.09.2000 · Read full review
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Compulsive (or compulsory?) reading

Advantages: warm, funny and well-observed
Disadvantages: none

...Jacqueline Wilson does it again - at last someone has written a novel about teenage anxieties and pressures which manages to say all the things that need to be said without patronising or falling flat on its face. Girls Under Pressure is a masterpiece o ...

violet 26.07.2000 · Read full review
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Read this, it's great

Advantages: Really funny, but has a serious note. Great pictures! Basically, another winner from J.W
Disadvantages: Won't be able to put it down.

...Ellie thinks she's fat. This is another book in the Girls series, and it's really funny, but also has a serious note. Ellie, the main character gets obsessed with losing weight, but she realises it's the wrong thing to do. The pictures are really funny, ...

alicemitchell 23.07.2000 · Read full review
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under pressure

Advantages: discusses a difficult topic in a way that isn't too heavy
Disadvantages: there aren't any

this is one of jacqueline wilson's best books (and i should know as i've read most of them!) the main issue it deals with is her main character (ellie)'s eating disorder (anorexia, with occasional binge/purge habits). although this is often a very diff ...

micronanobaby 31.05.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Girls Under Pressure - Jacqueline Wilson

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