



She was the author most borrowed from British libraries in the last decade. In 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. 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). Urn:lcp:opalplumstead0000wils_u2x7:epub:d0921318-e34e-4595-8f17-713fcaffc3c5 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier opalplumstead0000wils_u2x7 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1gj98f8b Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780857531100Ġ552574015 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9929 Ocr_module_version 0.0.8 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA400068 Page_number_confidence 79.14 Pages 534 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201205202730 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 562 Scandate 20201204040541 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780857531100 Tts_version 4.Jacqueline Wilson (Author) JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known and hugely popular author who served as Children's Laureate from 2005-7. She soon comes to admire her employer, Mrs Roberts, a suffragetteĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:23:08 Associated-names Sharratt, Nick, illustrator Boxid IA40010817 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Can she make it sweet again?" - cover.-Young Opal Plumstead gives up her Scholarship and leaves school to work in a sweet factory, to help her family while her father is away fighting in the First World War.

But the First World War is looming on the horizon, and will change Opal's life for ever And when Opal meets Morgan - Mrs Roberts' handsome son, and the heir to Fairy Glen - she believes she has found her soulmate. But Opal idolizes Mrs Roberts, the factory's beautiful, dignified owner, who introduces her to the legendary Emmeline Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes. Opal struggles to get along with the other workers, who think her snobby and stuck up. Yet her dreams are shattered when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must abandon school and start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory. Opal Plumstead is fiercely intelligent: a proud scholarship girl, with plans to go to university.
