Clean Break

Product Information

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. Lame Pun Reaction - Elsa gets a number of these in The Bed and Breakfast Star; she wants to be a comedian, but all the jokes she knows are incredibly cheesy. She later discovers people find her more entertaining when she's not actively trying to be funny. G-Rated Sex - Occurs in some of the author's earlier novels aimed at teens (such as Falling Apart and The Dream Palace). Usually done in a slightly confusing way whereby a normal scene occurs (such as the couple going for a walk or hanging out in the guy's room) with nothing untoward described, and then the protagonist casually mentions later that sex took place in the middle of the scene. Floss is very close with her father, Charlie, so much so that her mother seems jealous at times of their bond. The fact that she chooses to stay with him instead of going to Australia with her mother is proof enough, although she makes it clear that his disorganized lifestyle and chip-related work leads to problems in Floss' school and social life throughout the book. Frankie (Dad) – Em's stepdad. Walks out on the family on Boxing Day to live with his new partner, Sarah. He is very affectionate and caring, yet what puzzles Em as much as us is that suddenly, he falls out of love with his wife, and their home is no longer special and loving. He apologises all the time, and he really means it, but he never explains why he left. Sometimes his children wonder if it's because he no longer loves them, and when they ask him if that is true he begins to cry and cuddles them close.

Nadine does this to Ellie quite a lot in the Girls series, a standout example being when Ellie points out how stupid it is to trust a guy online and he could be having creepy fantasies about her in a bikini, Nadine retorts that Ellie's just jealous because she's too fat for anybody to imagine her in a bikini - even worse when you consider Ellie struggled with Bulimia in Girls Under Pressure. The title character of Amber briefly gets involved with Dave, who's at least twenty years older than she, when she believes she's pregnant and he offers to marry her and raise the baby with her. The relationship ends pretty much instantly when she finds out there is no baby. Colour Coded Eyes: Clover Moon has green eyes. She sometimes uses them to convince people that she's a witch. Tilly from Rent a Bridesmaid has a mother who has been absent from the family for at least a year and a half. Tracy Beaker, and Elsie in Queenie, end up being taken into children's homes because they had been left at home alone by their mothers (although in Elsie's case, she's able to go and live with her grandmother.)

Books with pages on this wiki include:

Adaptation Distillation: The first book of Hetty Feather spends half the story about Hetty's life in her foster home and later, her return to the Foundling Hospital at age five before the Time Skip. The show however, gives a small introduction in the first episode before focusing entirely on her current life in the hospital. This changes at the end of Series 3 when she, Gideon, and Sheila leave the hospital for their services. In Cookie, Beauty's father is middle-aged and has had two previous wives; her mother is young enough that people mistake her for Beauty's older sister, and she says she wasn't much older than a child when she got married. One-Night-Stand Pregnancy: Happens in Baby Love. Leon and Laura meet once, then Leon disappears from the story and he's never seen again, while Laura has to deal with her pregnancy, even though she's only fourteen. Ambiguously Gay: Mr Benjamin from Dancing The Charleston states that he has no interest in getting married and has a "pal" called Ambrose who stays with him. It's not stated what their relationship is, however, but that may be because the story is set in 1925, when such a relationship was illegal.

Miss Oliver from My Mum Tracy Beaker becomes this. She looks out for Jess and is very understanding when she gets popular after Tracy starts dating Sean and helping her after they break up. The two develop a friendship outside of school, especially after she and Cam become friends. 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. Innocent Inaccurate - Several cases of this. Among the most poignant are April in Dustbin Baby, who doesn't realise her depressed mother has committed suicide in the bathtub and Verity in The Cat Mummy when she tries to mummify her dead cat after learning about Egyptian mummies at school, and can't understand why her family is horrified at finding out what she's done In Lola Rose, Nikki fell for Jay and got pregnant with Jayni when she was only seventeen, but Jay began to abuse Nikki shortly after Jayni was born and he eventually turns on Jayni too, forcing Nikki to run away with Jayni and Kenny to protect them from him.The main character is a young girl called Emily, or Princess Emerald to her imaginative Dad, who lives with her mum Julie, her six-year-old half-sister Vita and her three-year-old half-brother Maxie in their grandmother Ellen's house. Although her dad is technically only her step-dad, Em and her siblings all love him completely. Emily is highly sensitive (as a lot of characters are), and is very insecure about her weight. On Christmas Day Emily and Vita and Maxie receive their presents. Vita gets a special reindeer hand-puppet which they name Dancer, Maxie gets a set of felt tip pens and Em gets an emerald ring. Later that day Em overhears a conversation her dad is having and realizes that he is having a secret affair. Emily confronts her father, and he owns up to his cheating, and by the next morning he has left. Em in "Clean Break" is associated with hippos; she has a large, chunky frame and school bullies often refer to her as "The Hippo". Phoebe in The Primrose Railway Children is the closest to her father, being the youngest and fond of playing imaginary games unlike her teenage sister and Literal-Minded brother. She takes it the hardest when she learns he is in prison, during which time she briefly decides she never wants to see him again. In the Girls series, Ellie has a crush on a handsome guy who turns out to be gay, leading to embarrassment for her when she pretends to her friends that he is her boyfriend Dan (the real Dan being awkward and nerdy.) She and the gay guy do become good friends though.