Similar authors to Jacqueline Wilson?

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DD (8) has almost read all JW'S books -including ones for older readers.

Any suggestions of similar 'realistic/street wise' type authors?

thanks

anyone?

my dd is reading one about a mum who is about to explode, hang on I'll check...

jeremy strong is the author, quite a good book i think.

Hilary McKay
Karen McCombie
Judy Blume
Cathy Cassidy
Paula Danziger

these are amony dd's favourites, but she'11, so you might want to censor a bit first. Mind you, there were JW's that I wouldn't let her read, so maybe your dd's made of tougher stuff than mine!

and judy blume can be a bit sexual, think that particular book is called forever, my friend had a copy and we passed it around when we were twleve

I don't mind a bit of sex - it was the very dark themes in some of Jaqueline Wilson that worried me - I didn't care for Midnight, in particular for younger children.

sex at eight though?

we like Jeremy Strong too

I agree - that's why I said they might need to be censored. I am ridiculously old fashioned about my children's reading! But the OP has already said that her dd has read the older JW's, so she'll have come across the domestic violence, the alcoholism and the incest........!

sorry seeker just saw your dd was 11

really? my goodness am glad my dd's still like the fairy and pony books, phew.

And she still hasn't read all the JW books! She loves pony books too - ploughing her way through the Pullein-Thompson books from my childhood!

I live about four doors down from our local library, very handy for my twins who have just started reading these sorts of books.

Hilary McKay

Gwyneth Rees's books for older children are pretty good, and dd likes them as much as JW. They are called things like The Mum Detective- they follow on from each other but are fairly self-contained. They are not strictly street-wise though....

cheers all, will point her in the general direction of some of these.