Candyfloss - Softcover

Wilson, Jacqueline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440866456 ISBN 13: 9780440866459

Publisher: Corgi Childrens, 2007

Synopsis

Floss's parents are divorced, and she divides up her week, spending five days with her mum, her new stepdad and her baby half-brother. The other two days Floss spends with her dad, helping him to run his greasy spoon cafe. But their simple arrangement is thrown into disarray when Floss's mum decides to move to Australia.

Making the difficult decision to stay at home, Floss moves in permanently with her dad and they muddle along happily together, surviving on chip butties and enjoying visits to the local funfair. But disaster strikes - Dad's money troubles catch up with him and they have to move out of the cafe. They're homeless - but can their new fairground friends help out?

About this title

Review:

The Children’s Laureate has done it again. Jacqueline Wilson’s latest story is a winning combination of realistic characters, entertaining drama and moving encounters. Candlyfloss effortlessly draws its young readers into its pages from the beginning, immediately making connections with a readership that idolises the author’s every literary effort.

Floss lives with her mum and her mum’s new husband--the super ambitious Steve--and her half-brother Tiger. When Steve drops the bombshell that he has been asked to go and work in Sydney, and that they’re all moving to Australia for six months, Floss cannot believe it. She’s excited about the prospect of a trip of a lifetime but what about her dad? He may only be the less well-off and unsuccessful owner of a down-at-heel greasy spoon café, but she is all he has got in the world to look forward to. He lives for her weekly visits and the chance to feed her chip butties without her mum finding out.

Floss soon finds herself in an impossible situation. If she chooses to stay behind, everything will be different. She may be able to stay close to her not-all-that-she-seems best friend Rhiannon and get to live with the best dad in the world full-time, but is it the right decision to make in the long run?

As an ambassador demonstrating the robust health of the nation’s storytelling talent, one needs look no further than Jacqueline Wilson. Her popularity is well earned, and seemingly repeated and confirmed with each new volume in her library. Her novels have a ring of the familiar; characters that seem like they live just next door, speaking dialogue that is so true-to-life it makes you wonder how old the lady behind the words really is. Wilson’s bestselling novels, totalling over twenty million and counting, are undoubtedly the modern classics of the future.

(Age 9 and over)--John McLay

Review:

"Wilson is on top social-observing form" (Christina Hardyment Independent)

"As usual, Wilson's book provokes both laughter and thought" (Junior Education)

"Wilson moves away from familiar mum territory to cast her acute eye on dads" (Dina Rabinovitch Guardian)

"Jacqueline Wilson fans will love this new adventure drawn straight from the reality of the modern teenager" (The Good Book Guide)

"Another absorbing slice of family and school life" (The Children's Bookseller)

About this edition

• Publisher: Corgi Childrens
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0440866456
• ISBN 13: 9780440866459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Illustrator: Sharratt Nick