Jacqueline Wilson, (1999), Girls Out Late
By Melissa Camargo, 2º A E.S.O.
Ellie is best friends with her pretty and skinny friends Nadine and
Magda while she isn´t as good looking. In this book, the third in the series,
the three of them meet a boy at McDonalds, Russell. For once, a guy is
interested in Ellie, rather than her friends. The pair fall in love, and
everything is going well, except Ellie is slightly neglecting her friends. When
she realises that the concert she was meant to go to with her friends fell on
the same date as a dance Russell had wanted them to go, they all get annoyed at
her.
Ellie: is shy and self-conscious about her weight. She
is surprised when Russell, an older and undoubtedly good looking guy, takes
interest in her. She is very artistic, and, in turn, good at art. Her
relationship with Anna, her step-mom, is more of a sisterly one, rather than
mother to daughter. Eggs, her baby step-brother, is very irritating, and
usually makes fun of Ellie. Her Dad is slightly overprotective, and may be the
reason she´s so interested in art, as he´s a college art teacher.
Anna: is Ellie´s step-mother, and she´s quite young.
She went to art school, where she met Ellie´s dad, and fell in love with him.
She had a child, Eggs, with him. She is usually cheerful, even sometimes when
looking after Eggs. Even though Ellie´s not her real daughter, she was still
worried when Ellie arrived home almost three hours late once, even crying over
it.
The themes are romance, friendship, lies and family. The genre is teen fiction.
The part I liked the best was
when Ellie met Russell. He´d
been drawing her and approached her, asking if she was ´Ellie the elephant´,
making Ellie panic and think he was making fun at her, when he´d just seen some
scribbles she´d done in the art shop.
Recommendation: I kind of liked this book, albeit not much. I
found the characters exaggerated in their reactions at something, action or
speech, as well as immature. I disliked Ellie´s point of view, even though, as
the main character, she was probably meant to be likeable. This story would be
better suited, in my opinion, for 12, or maybe even 13, year olds.
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