Red Bananas: My Brother Bernadette Award-winning author by Jacqueline Wilson (author)

Sara always gets lumbered with looking after her little brother Bernard. And summer project at the local school is no different. There’s so much to do – football, judo, trampolining, model car making, computer games and drama. But all Bernard wants to do is clothes design. Soon all the kids, led by Big Dan, are calling Bernard ‘Bernadette’ and shoving him around. Sara wants to help but she doesn’t want to make it worse. But ‘Bernadette’ is a little boy with big ideas. And he has a plan up his very nicely designed sleeve . . .

Red bananas are chapter books for newly fluent readers, suitable for NC Level 3 readers. They are carefully designed illustrated books for both entertainment and education, supporting children’s understanding of how to read longer books. Red bananas introduce similes and wordplay to encourage an understanding of more literary concepts.

Product Details

Series

Red Bananas

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781405257800

Publisher

Egmont Books Ltd

Date published

February 7th, 2011

Lexile measure

570L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 3.5; Middle years; 0.5 points

Condition

New

Part of this Series

Red Bananas

Author/Illustrator

Jacqueline Wilson

Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first “novel” when she was nine, filling countless Woolworths’ exercise books as she grew up. Since having her daughter, Emma, she has been writing full time.

Her insightful and emotionally challenging books not only stretch reading ability, but give young readers a glimpse into many kinds of lives. Smart girls, strong girls, bad girls, brave girls. Girls keeping their families going, girls trying to get away… Jacqueline Wilson’s written about them all! These powerful stories of plucky girls in difficult circumstances won’t fail to strike a chord.

She has written over 70 best-selling books, and several have even been adapted for TV – most famously The Story of Tracy Beaker. Her signing sessions attract huge crowds of fans and last for hours! Over 25 million copies of her books have now been sold in the UK alone.

In 2007 Jacky Daydream was published, an inspirational true story of how a shy schoolgirl became a superstar author. This was followed by My Secret Diary, a captivating account of Jacky’s teenage years.

In June 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools, and she was the Children’s Laureate from 2005-2007. She also became a Dame in December 2007.