- Hardcover: 228 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday Children's Books; 1st Edition edition (4 Mar 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385606060
- ISBN-13: 978-0385606066
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 15.4 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 226,904 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Gemma and Alice have been best friends from the day they were born. For real: Their mothers gave birth to them on the same day and they've been BFFs ever since - until the day that Alice's family moves to Scotland. Total opposites, Alice is feminine and well-behaved while Gemma has a propensity for causing calamities, which stages the action. A taxi-driving dad, two older brothers, a dog named Barking Mad, her mom who wants a curly-girly (like Alice), a fun-loving granddad and a fat classmate who loves to eat (named Biscuits) round out the cast. While stories about best friends separated by moving are plentiful, Wilson's British fillip makes this one original, with Gemma's strong first-person voice and personality and Sharratt's black-and-white drawings in strip-style sketches before each chapter teasing the reader and forecasting the next turn of events. Gemma's dilemmas - crying jags, chocolate binges, cake-throwing, special dolls and bracelets and birthday wishes - are sprinkled with British idioms; this will cause no problems for American readers, who will be grinning all the while. (Fiction. 9-12) (Kirkus Reviews)
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An entertaining and touching story about a special friendship, from bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson - now featuring a new introduction from the author.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book best friends is a very good book by Jacqueline Wilson. It's not the type of book I would like because I normally read books like Enid Blyton's the twins at st. Claire's and Mallory towers, I decided to try a Jacqueline Wilson book and when I finished it I thought it was good. I bought another one and when I finished that one I thought it was very good. After that my mam bought me the book best friends. At first I thought it wouldn't be good and I thought it would be a bit babyish. All the same, I decided to start reading it. It was about two girls, Gemma and Alice were best friends and they lived next door to each other. Then Alice had to move to Scotland and her mother didn't want her to have anything to do with Gemma anymore. The only way they could keep in touch was to use e-mails because Alice's new friend Flora, had let Alice use her computer. But Gemma isn't sure that she and Alice can stay best friends forever.......
By Roisin Barrett, Aged 10.
By Roisin Barrett, Aged 10.
56 of 61 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
My son looked at me with disgust when I suggested that he read a Jacqueline Wilson book. 'Those are for girls...' he sneered. 'Well, just you have an open mind and give it a go. I mean, just how many decent srory books have you exactly found to read lately?'
Well, he shuffled about uneasily and conceded that there really wasn't much of interest left in his school library to read and so begrudgingly, he took the book away.
A few days later, it's all smiles and 'Jacqueline Wilson this...and Jacqueline Wilson that' and 'please can you get hold of some more of these types of books PLEASE!'
So this is a great starting point for a very competent 7 yr old, but perhaps more for an 8 or 9 year old. The children in the stories are still at junior school, so that's a good guide as to thw suitability of the starting age range. There's no upper limit - it's a great read for grown-ups too! The only reason why we decided not to give it 5 stars is that she (Jacqueline Wilson) has not got many starring roles for boys in any of her novels!
Well, he shuffled about uneasily and conceded that there really wasn't much of interest left in his school library to read and so begrudgingly, he took the book away.
A few days later, it's all smiles and 'Jacqueline Wilson this...and Jacqueline Wilson that' and 'please can you get hold of some more of these types of books PLEASE!'
So this is a great starting point for a very competent 7 yr old, but perhaps more for an 8 or 9 year old. The children in the stories are still at junior school, so that's a good guide as to thw suitability of the starting age range. There's no upper limit - it's a great read for grown-ups too! The only reason why we decided not to give it 5 stars is that she (Jacqueline Wilson) has not got many starring roles for boys in any of her novels!
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
when my mummy bought me this book i thought "awww a big long boring book !!" but as i read the first page i couldnt stop then i found myself at chapter 8 and then my mummy took it of me and said "no more reading it will hurt your eyes!"
i told her it reminded me about my best friend orfhlaith and me, and it did because i have brown hair and she has blond hair and im loud and messy and orfhlaith is quiet and neat!
i loved this book and i never want to get rid of it because i love it :)
and i have read it 3 times and i can now finish it within a day!!
i really would like you to read this and see what it is like
I LOVE THE BOOK 'BEST FRIENDS'
by olivia xx
i told her it reminded me about my best friend orfhlaith and me, and it did because i have brown hair and she has blond hair and im loud and messy and orfhlaith is quiet and neat!
i loved this book and i never want to get rid of it because i love it :)
and i have read it 3 times and i can now finish it within a day!!
i really would like you to read this and see what it is like
I LOVE THE BOOK 'BEST FRIENDS'
by olivia xx
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an awesome book
one of the best books i have ever read. I love the way Alice is so quiet but Gemma is so noisy. It's about a girl called Alice and on called Gemma. Read more
Published 7 days ago by deano1801
sooooooooo sad!!!
this book is soooooooo emotional! i made me cry so there were fat salty tears running down my cheeks! Read more
Published 18 days ago by purple moo!
Can't stop reading it!!
Review by Evelyn Kitson (age 8)
Alice and Gemma have always been BFFs, everybody knows it. Read more
Alice and Gemma have always been BFFs, everybody knows it. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ross Kitson
SUPERB MY FAV AUTHOR
well i'm not suprise that j.w.how does she do it.i luv your books.and BEST FRIENDS best one YET.i definetly recomend this to girls my age and over
Published 1 month ago by BilanKalgacal
Best Friends by Jacqueline Wilson
This book is about the friendship of two girls called Gemma and Alice. They were born on the same day and have been best friends ever since. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Cutie Cat
great book
great book i would give this book eight out of ten because it is quite a sad story.anyway this is what happens. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr Pete Steele
Best friends
This book was amazing!!!! My favorate part was probily when Gemma stuffs a huge chocolate cake in Alice's new best friend in Scotland's face! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. Mkg Wilkins
Best Friends by Jaqueline Wilson
This book is an ideal read for any young girl and the author writes in a way to keep the attention of anyone reading. Read more
Published 2 months ago by D. Hunt
Best Friends
This is a really good book. I think that its my favourite Jacqueline Wilson book, and I love it! If I had to describe it in three words, I would use funny, emotive and cheerful. Read more
Published 3 months ago by C-Cat
Best Friends
Best Friends is just one of the many flabagasting books wrote by the bestselling auther Jacqueline Wilson. Read more
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