Lessons are present, but few and not that well learned except that a badly behaved girl can walk all over everyone. I would still recommend it to a friend because I did enjoy it but I would say that 8 year old would like this better than a 12 year old! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. There is a happy ending though, with Gemma becoming good friends with Biscuits and Alice sending Gemma her charm bracelet as a sign that they will be best friends forever.

The book is about two best friends, namely Gemma and Alice who have been together since birth and who are also like chalk and cheese. Gemma and Alice are so relatable and I know the feeling of leaving your best friend because I've been through it before. Gemma, one of the two best friends is the loud trouble maker, but still cares very dearly about her best friend Alice. In Best Friends, Gemma and Alice have been together since birth - literally, they were born on the same day and have been inseparable ever since, despite being complete opposites (Gemma is loud, selfish, and bossy, while Alice is timid, meek, and sensible). Their dissimilarity in personality and physical appearance is what fuels their friendship and makes them compatible in that, what one lacks in, the other makes up for and vice versa.

In the TV series Karen is a single parent - Alice's dad was Geoff and abandoned them when Alice was little after coming out as gay (he 'ran off with the gas man'). They were born on the same day and seemingly do everything together; however, they do have different personalities which add to their camaraderie. Gemma gradually starts to rebuild her life without Alice, including establishing her friendship with Biscuits. The thing is, it makes no difference how hard the girls cry, or how loudly they complain, Alice is going to move away, and nothing will bring her back again. Gemma is distraught, and thinks Alice has moved on when she doesn't receive a birthday card from her.

She is the 2005-2007 British Children's Laureate, and has won numerous major literary awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize, and the Children's Book of the Year. However, Gemma received the most punishment, being the more boisterous of the two, was always deemed as the trouble maker and was forbidden to see Alice.Alice and Gemma were born on the same day and even with very different personalities were best of friends. Jacqueline Wilson is the author of almost one hundred books, including Candyfloss , available in paperback from Square Fish.