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Wilson, Jacqueline,

Cookie / Jacqueline Wilson ; illustrated by Nick Sharratt. - London : Doubleday Children's, 2008. - 319 pages; illustrations; 23 cm.

Beauty Cookson is no beauty. She's a plain, timid girl who constantly feels inferior to the super-confident, snooty girls at school. Worse than the teasing in the playground, though, is the unpredictable, hurtful criticism from her father. Beauty and her meek, sweet mother live in uneasy fear of his fierce rages, sparked whenever they break one of his fussy house rules. Eventually, after an unbearable birthday party and the very real threat of Dad's out-of-control temper, Mum and Beauty run away. Finding themselves in a quiet, idyllic seaside village, their new-found freedom and a moment of culinary inspiration give them a hobby, an income and even a new nickname for Beauty. Can they begin a happier, sweeter life - without Dad?

ISBN: 9780552558310 0552558311 9780385615501 0385615507 9780385613972 0385613970

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA890678 bnb GBA885464 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014673965 Uk 014662075 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Fathers and daughters--Juvenile fiction.
Runaway children--Juvenile fiction.
Runaway wives--Juvenile fiction.
Cooks--Juvenile fiction.
Self-realisation--Juvenile fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ

Dewey Class. No.: 823.914