Cliffhanger (Biscuit Barrel, 2)

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Pet the Dog: At the end of The Story of Tracy Beaker, Tracy gives Justine her favorite pen despite the latter being so nasty. Bella in Sleepovers easily eats the most out of any of the girls, and her birthday sleepover involves a huge tea party with tons of food. She bonds with Daisy's disabled sister Lily because they both like chocolate. Bella even calls herself fat at one point, but she adds that she doesn't care. Devil in Plain Sight - Dustbin Baby mentions that April was frequently tormented by a girl at the care home where she used to live, with all the carers seemingly blind to this and thinking the girls were best friends, until April pushed the girl down the stairs and put her in hospital. Market-Based Title: Elsa, Star of the Shelter was changed to The Bed and Breakfast Star in reprints, to reflect the change in accommodation offered to families like Elsa's.

Prudence calls out her Dad at the beginning of "Love Lessons", though he has a stroke minutes later and she feels terribly about if even though she was right. 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.Frankie's friend Sam in Love, Frankie believes he's fallen in love with her, but as Frankie comes to realise she is a lesbian, Sam has to accept that she'll never return his feelings.

In Falling Apart, Jan is strongly suggested to be a lesbian. Simon even admits he accepted a bet to ask out either her or Tina, but chose Tina because there's no way Jan would ever accept.Baby Love only mentions Leon pulling at Laura's clothes before she pushes him off and runs away, and then she recounts what happened in her head to make it clear what actually happened. There may be some kind of Bilingual Bonus here, as it implies that he asked for permission in French, but Laura didn't understand one of the words, assuming it meant "cuddle". In Katy, the title character is withdrawn from a class without the consent of, or even discussion with, the pupil and her family, purely on the say-so of somebody else's mother. Star in The Illustrated Mum mentions having raised Dolphin for most of her life despite only being three or so years older than her.

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. Death by Childbirth: In The Longest Whale Song, Ella's mother goes into a very dangerous and life-threatening coma from eclampsia after the birth of Ella's baby brother. The trope is ultimately averted as she wakes at the end of the book. Subverted in Love Frankie where, although never explicitly described as a lesbian, Frankie openly dates Sally for a while and firmly tells her family that she is only attracted to girls. The Münchausen - Tracy Beaker, sort of. The tall tales she tells are about her mother rather than herself.Career Versus Family / Career Versus Man - Touched upon a few times in the Girls series. In Girls Out Late, Ellie, Nadine and Magda are upset when they discover that their favourite pop star has given up her career to please her boyfriend. In Girls in Tears, Anna's career is a source of friction between her and Ellie's father; and it's mentioned that Ellie's mother gave up a promising career to raise her daughter. Similarly, the epilogue of Baby Love takes place over 60 years after the main story with a now-elderly Laura describing how society's view of teen pregnancy has changed over her lifetime. Also Miss Hill from The Illustrated Mum, who seems to delight in making Dolphin's day that much worse, despite the fact there would be a lot of evidence that Dol had a rough home life and at one point she continues to lecture Dol about the fact she hasn't even washed her face even as Dol is crying. However, she then appears to have some remorse, and later in the story, she definitely pulls a Heel–Face Turn after the school being made aware of what Dolphin Grass Is Greener: In This Girl, the heroine, fed up with her impoverished existence, becomes a nanny for a rich family who live in a grand house. She soon finds out their life is not as picture-perfect as she thought. Does Not Like Men: Jan in Falling Apart is an avowed feminist, dislikes men, and refuses to hang around with boys. When Simon tells Tina he only dated her because of a bet with a friend, he says he was dared to ask out her or Jan but Tina was obviously easier to get.