Best Friends

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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. This may be subconscious, as Laura is a teenager around the same time as Wilson (they were both fourteen in 1960, when the story takes place). Parental Favoritism: Ellie worries that Eggs is both her father's and Anna's favourite. Nadine thinks that her sister Natasha is their parents' favorite, given that her mother is less harsh on Natasha than on Nadine herself. Lola Rose's father, who, like Cookie's, was initially abusive to her mom and later to her as well. It is implied that this is the reason that Lola Rose's mother gets cancer. People assume India from Secrets is this, but she usually averts it, noting that she plays it straight only when defending Anne Frank's diary against the girls in her class. Love Father, Love Son - the title character in Amber has a short relationship with her mother's ex-boyfriend, who believes Amber is pregnant (though he's not the father), and wants to marry her and raise the baby together. Amber's mother isn't at all happy with this idea.

Floss is very close with her father, Charlie, so much so that her mother seems jealous at times of their bond. The fact that she chooses to stay with him instead of going to Australia with her mother is proof enough, although she makes it clear that his disorganized lifestyle and chip-related work leads to problems in Floss' school and social life throughout the book. Doorstop Baby - April of Dustbin Baby, who as the title suggests was actually found abandoned in a bin.Mandy in Bad Girls is very sheltered and her parents make her dress like a much younger child. As a result, she's noticeably immature for her age, which is part of the reason Kim and her gang bully her. In Katy, Katy's parents are suspicious of her new friend Imogen partly because Imogen calls her father by his given name. Normally timid Beauty Cookson manages to intimidate Skye, her primary bully, after Skye calls her mother a slag. Always Identical Twins: Ruby and Garnet. Averted in The Butterfly Club where triplets Tina, Maddie and Phil are not identical because Tina is considerably smaller than the other two. In Midnight, the heroine

In Cookie, Beauty considers not inviting Skye to her birthday party and tearing up the invitation in front of her class, but sees how desperate she is to attend and invites her, despite how mean she is. Calling the Old Man Out: Knowing full well her father will beat her mother the moment she and Kenny go to bed, Jayni yells at him how she hates him for ruining everything. This is the catalyst that prompts him to hit her for the first time and for Nikki to run away with the kids. In Double Act, Ruby cuts all her hair to make her look different from her twin sister. This signals how the twins are starting to become more individual. Garnet tries to copy Ruby but Ruby threatens her not to. Be Careful What You Wish For: At the end of Rose Rivers, it is being arranged for Rose to go to boarding school and get the education she wanted, but at the cost of losing her family. Even though Rose is getting what she wanted, she loses what she had. Handicapped Badass - Mary in Take a Good Look, a partially sighted teen who escapes armed robbers holding her hostage.Girl on Girl Is Hot: Apparently, all the high school boys in Love Frankie think this. When they hear about Frankie and Sally's kiss on New Years, they all want them to kiss again so they can watch. One boy even asks Frankie out just because he wants details. Katie in The Suitcase Kid is implied to have eventually told the adults that Andy had left the house at night and was later mentioned to have been in tears, suggesting it was out of genuine worry. She also stopped taunting Andy when she realised she was serious about going out, telling her that she was just making things up to annoy her. In the book, Gemma, Alice, and Biscuits' class teacher is Mrs Watson; in the TV series the class teacher is Miss Mancer (pronounced "Maneer"). Ellen Jane's mother in Diamond, who insisted on having more and more babies until she got four sons (naming the first three Matthew, Mark and Luke and intending to call the fourth John). She died while giving birth to John, her sixth child. Katy's father in Waiting For the Sky to Fall, and Prue's father in Love Lessons, are extremely controlling, demanding and emotionally abusive towards their children.

Alice Barlow: Gemma's best friend. In contrast to Gemma, she is quite the girly girl, who loves dressing up, ballet and the color pink. She is also eleven. She appears traumatised when she and her parents move away to Scotland, having been parted from Gemma. However, she is spoiled with all sorts of glamorous items in their new home. She makes friends with snobby Flora. She writes Gemma a birthday card at the end of the book. While she is surrounded by fancy and elegant objects, lives in a beautiful countryside home and attends an ever so fancy school, all she truly wants is her best friend to be here, too. Honorary Uncle: Mona in Dancing The Charleston considers Mr Benjamin one. He is eventually revealed to be her real uncle. Meaningful Rename - the end of Lola Rose implies that Jayni will continue living as Lola Rose, an identity she struggled to live up to for most of the book.In the Girls series, it is mentioned that Ellie's low self-esteem is partly due to her mother's death. In Rent a Bridesmaid, Tilly mentions that "Auntie" Sue who takes care of her after school is not related to her, just a friend of her dad. Fairytale Motifs - Violet in Midnight, Ellie in the Girls series, May in The Power of the Shade, Opal in Opal Plumstead