Love Lessons

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Fourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. Forced to wear Mum's odd hand-made garments and forbidden from reading teenage magazines, they know they're very different to 'normal' girls - but when Dad has a stroke and ends up in hospital, unable to move or speak, Prue suddenly discovers what it's like to have a little freedom. Sent to a real school for the first time, Prue struggles to fit in. The only person she can talk to is her kindly, young - and handsome - art teacher, Rax. They quickly bond, and Prue feels more and more drawn to him. As her feelings grow stronger, she begins to realise that he might feel the same way about her. But nothing could ever happen between them - could it?

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JACQUELINE WILSON is a vastly well-known and hugely popular author. THE ILLUSTRATED MUM was chosen as British Childrens Book of the Year in 1999 and was winner of the Guardian Childrens Fiction Award 2000. Jacqueline has won the prestigious Smarties Prize and the Childrens Book Award for DOUBLE ACT, which was also highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. Jacqueline was awarded an OBE in 2002 and was the most borrowed author from British libraries in 2003/04. Jacqueline is now the fourth children\'s Laureate.\n\n* \'A brilliant young writer of wit and subtlety\' THE TIMES\n* \'Hugely popular with seven to ten year olds: she should be prescribed for all cases of reading reluctance\' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY\n* \'Has a rare gift for writing lightly and amusingly about emtional issues\' BOOKSELLER\n\n\nNick Sharratt has written and illustrated many books for children and won numerous awards for his picture books, including the Sheffield Children\'s Book Award and the 2001 Children\'s Book Award. He has also enjoyed great success illustrating Jacqueline Wilson books. Nick lives in Brighton