My Sister Jodie (40 page)
Authors: Jacqueline Wilson
I wasn't sure I'd like you at first, let alone love you. I thought I'd used up all my love on Jodie. I so wanted you to look like Jodie, be like Jodie. But you're not a bit like her, you're not like me either, you're utterly yourself. You're pink and plump and so serene, smiling and holding out your starfish hands whenever you see me. I can make you screw up your lovely blue eyes and give small giggly gurgles whenever I kiss your fat tummy. That's the only thing that reminds me of Jodie, that little laugh. You laugh a lot, May, because you're so happy, and you don't yet understand why Mum and Dad and I are still so sad.
I'm trying to get on with my life even so. I read, I write, I do my homework. I go to Greenhill, the big secondary school down the road. It was pretty scary the first few weeks, but I'm OK now, really. I've got
friends â though there's no one like Harley. I like most of the teachers, especially Mrs Goodhew, who takes us for English. She's encouraging me to write stories. She has no idea I've written the most important true-life story in the world in this book.
It's all for you, May. You're my baby sister and I love you with all my heart and I'll always look after you. If anyone teases you or hurts you or scares you when you go to school, I'll make mincemeat of them, I promise you. But I'll never ever be such a great big sister as Jodie. She's your sister too, May, and she always will be. You'll understand why when you're old enough to read this story. We're never going to forget our sister Jodie.
Jacqueline Wilson is an extremely well-known and hugely popular author who served as Children's Laureate from 2005â7. She has been awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the British Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award (for
The Illustrated Mum
), the Smarties Prize and the Children's Book Award (for
Double Act
, for which she was also highly commended for the Carnegie Medal). In 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. She has sold over thirty-five million books and was the author most borrowed from British libraries in the last decade.
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Copyright © Jacqueline Wilson, 2008
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Corgi Childrens 9780552554435 2008
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