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9 Jacqueline Wilson characters you must get to know

Jacqueline Wilson has so many amazing characters for you to get to know. Some might be just like you, some lived very different lives in very different times. Which one will you get to know next? Which one would you like to be your friend? 

Tracy Beaker from THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER

Tracy is adventurous, naughty and lots of fun. She lives in a Children’s Home and her worst enemy is Justine Littlewood. She would like a real home with a real family.

Tracy Beaker

Hetty Feather from HETTY FEATHER

Hetty was left at the Foundling Hospital as a tiny baby by her desperate mother. She’s fierce, brave and determined to find her mother whatever it takes.

Hetty Feather

Andy from THE SUITCASE KID

Andy’s mum and dad have split up and so she has to spend one week with Mum’s new family and then one week with Dad’s. Luckily she always has her toy rabbit Radish with her.

Andy from The Suitcase Kid

Katy from KATY

Katy is the eldest in her family and loves to invent brilliant games, skateboard, climb trees and swing as high as she can. But when she has a terrible accident she has to find a new way to soar. 

Katy from Jacqueline Wilson's Katy

Dolphin from THE ILLUSTRATED MUM

Dolphin loves her mum, the amazing tattooed exciting Marigold – but she doesn’t like it when Marigold goes weird and she has to look after herself. She just wants things to be normal but they never are with Marigold around. 

Dolphin from The Illustrated Mum

Ellie from GIRLS IN LOVE

Ellie is in year 9 and has two best friends – Magda and Nadine. She’s lively, creative and loves to draw. She has wild curly hair and wears glasses and wishes she had a boyfriend. 

Ellie from Jacqueline Wilson's Girls in Love

Marty from THE WORST THING ABOUT MY SISTER

Marty is a messy tomboy who loves animals, making dens and drawing comics. But her sister is super-girlie and loves pink. When they have to share a room there is sure to be trouble!

Marty from The Worst Thing About My Sister

Tina from THE BUTTERFLY CLUB

Tina is a triplet, but she's always been the odd one out. Her sisters Phil and Maddie are bigger and stronger and better at just about everything. Luckily, they look after teeny-tiny Tina wherever they go - but when the girls start in scary Miss Lovejoy's class, they're split up, and Tina has to fend for herself for the first time.

Tina from The Butterfly Club

Tim from CLIFFHANGER

Tim loves reading, drawing and doing puzzles but he is hopeless at sport.  When he has to survive a whole week at adventure holiday camp, he knows it’s going to be tough but meeting a new friend makes it all much easier. 

Tim from Cliffhanger

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