Kiss

Jacqueline Wilson is a hugely popular author.She has won the prestigious Smarties Prize and the Children’s Book Award forDouble Act, which was also highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. From the Hardcover edition.Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children. They’ve always played together, eaten with each other’s families, called each other boyfriend and girlfriend and deep down, Sylvie has always believed that they’d end up married to each other. They even have a magical fantasy world that belongs to them alone — and the glass hut where it’s all created, at the bottom of Carl’s garden. But as they become teenagers, things are starting to change. They each have different friends. Sylvie would still rather spend all her time with Carl. But Carl has a new friend, Paul, who is taking all his attention. And he seems much less happy to be called Sylvie’s boyfriend. And in a game of spin the bottle, he avoids having to kiss her. Sylvie can tell his feelings have changed and that her plans for the future may be affected. But can she guess at the true reasons behind it all? A moving, compelling and delicately handled treatment of sexuality from the Children’s Laureate. From the Hardcover edition.“Has a rare gift for writing lightly and amusingly about emotional issues.” –Bookseller “A brilliant young writer of wit and subtlety.” –The Times From the Hardcover edition.