Girls In Tears

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Ellie, Magda and Nadine are back - and, as usual, they've got all sorts of trouble with school, parents and boyfriends. Her books are great at getting children to really think about actions and their consequences, really opening the eyes of children to the world. And, as good as it is to portray teenagers being happy in relationships, I certainly don't like how the boys are characterised as only interested in sex.

It feels very juvenile, verging on condescending, for a novel aimed at 14-15 year olds, yet the subject matter itself straddles that line between being too ‘adult’.Get caught up in the wonderfully engrossing world of these three teenage girls and their absorbing, convincing and entertaining lives and loves. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

And Nadine is fed up with the other two lecturing her about the dangers of meeting someone on the Internet - she thinks her online boyfriend sounds wonderful! perfectly capturing the raw emotions her characters endure through their daily lives, while telling a darn good story that will leave readers asking, "How soon can we read the next one?

However, to give it some credit, Ellie was kept mostly intact, the writing style remains as strong as ever, and I did like some storylines - the Dad and Anna and Eggs plotline was pretty decent. Double Act won the prestigious Smarties Medal and the Children’s Book Award as well as being highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. Another one of Russell's toxic traits is the way he completely plagiarises Ellie's original character and art style and uses it for an art competition, and compares it to Ellie adapting her late mother's original character into her own.