Becomes a plot point when Violet sees that in a baby photo "Will" had blue eyes - when he was past the age where they might naturally have changed colour. Jacqueline Wilson DBE, FRSL (née Aitken, born 17 December 1945) is a bestselling British author who has written a huge amount of novels for children and teenagers. Treasure's grandmother in Secrets has six children, with the oldest at least in her late twenties and the youngest seven years old and younger than her own niece. Brother–Sister Team - Violet and Will in Midnight, Hetty and Jem/Gideon in Hetty Feather, Dorry and Jonnie in Katy. She's named after her mother ("May" is an anagram of her mother's name, Amy); has her mother's old bedroom, furniture, books, and other belongings; and is pushed to become an artist because that was Amy's ambition in life.

She is eventually isolated after an incident involving a scandalous piece of writing, as the nuns running her school feel she may corrupt the other girls.Marigold from The Illustrated Mum has idolized Micky as the love of her life for years, but fails to realize that he does not want anything to do with her. In one scene, India imagines being jailed for hiding Treasure in her attic and then Freudian Excuse: Selma from The Butterfly Club is a bully because her mother and stepfather abuse her.

Raxberry, although adults reading the book would consider it a better ending for her than the alternative. The correctional facility in The Runaway Girls is a glorified workhouse for children too young to be in the real thing, and is shown to be as bad or worse. Cloud Cuckoolander - Lampshaded in Opal Plumstead when Cassie daydreams about being the wife of a man twice her age that she's been out with, and Opal tells her that she is living in "cloud-cuckoo-land".Pet the Dog: At the end of The Story of Tracy Beaker, Tracy gives Justine her favorite pen despite the latter being so nasty. Cannot Tell a Joke: Elsa in The Bed and Breakfast Star is funny, but she tries to keep her sister happy by telling a bunch of awful jokes.

Wilson has noted that many of her protagonists share similar backgrounds and experiences to hers: for instance, Dolphin's family's council house in The Illustrated Mum is similar to the one Wilson grew up in (in Jacky Daydream, she compares their downstairs neighbour to one her family had around the time she started school), and The Other Side was partly based on her own childhood experiences of believing that she could learn to fly. Retcon - Billy "Biscuits" gets a change of surname between Buried Alive/Cliffhanger (his first appearances) and Best Friends, where he reappears as a main character in a book unrelated to the previous two.Marigold in The Illustrated Mum would count as one, although subverted when Dolphin later discovers Marigold is actually a natural brunette. The show however, gives a small introduction in the first episode before focusing entirely on her current life in the hospital.

Hetty Feather does this twice: looking for her mother in Hetty Feather, and her father in Emerald Star.Tina's mother in Falling Apart still hasn't recovered from her son's death seven years ago, and makes Tina feel very unloved because of it. Apparently nobody thinks to lodge a complaint against bullying or abusive teachers, so the main characters just suffer in silence. Baby Love makes many comparisons between Laura's mother and Wilson's mother, including the whole class systems, her paying for Laura's glasses to have "fancy upswept frames" and even working similar hours. April in Dustbin Baby is haunted by the question of why her birth mother abandoned her and is traumatised by her adoptive mother's suicide. Jayni/Lola Rose gets this to some extent in Lola Rose when her mother goes into hospital, leaving her alone to take care of her little brother.