Customer Reviews
Very secretive - By: Mehajabeen Farid, 13 Jan 2008 
Jacqueline Wilson has created a masterpiece which is one of my favourite books. Secrets is about a friendship between two people from two different backgrounds. India livesin the lap of luxury on a posh housing estate. Her mum is a famous children's clothes designer & her dad is top man at a top company. But India is far from happy with her life. Her uptight anorexic mother does little to hide her disappointmentin her chubby offspring, & her dad is decidedly distracted these days, so India followsin the footsteps of her heroine Anne Frank & reveals allin her secret diary. Treasure livesin a council flat with her glamorous, line-dancing Nan but is scared she may one day have to go back to live with her mum. She, too, keeps a diary but hers is called the Terrible Terry Torture Manual & is filled with all the things she would like to do to get her own back on her bullying stepfather. Nan takes her to hospital where she lies to keep Terry out of trouble & then Treasure stays with her Nan for a while. Treasure meets India one day while coming back from school, at the bike park. They become good friends & see each other often. Treasure, the floppy-haired string bean, & India, the rotund red-head, meet by chance & against the odds forge a friendship that is tested to the limit when Treasure runs away to avoid having to go & live with her mum & Terry again. The frightened little girl takes refugein her new best friend's attic, while India relishes the chance to take care of a real Anne Frank...
Good but not great - By: Bookworm, 28 May 2007 
I found this book OK but some of the chapters were a bit boring.
I didn't really like India because she was always whining, I liked Treasure though.
My favourite part of the book was when it's New Year's Eve & Treasure's Nan had a party.
If you're thinking of reading this book don't buy it, go to the library & borrow it, & see if you like it.
*[[ Secrets ]]* - By: OoOo lala, 04 May 2007 jacqueline wilson has done it again, produced a fabulous,account of the lives of two young girls who become friends, from very different backgrounds they share the one thing they both need...someone to listen. every chapter is written out as though a passage from alternately treasure's & india's diary. a funny, well-written, encouraging story of how two people from different backgrounds & extremely different personalities confide theyre biggest & darkest secrets.
recommended & reviewed by shannah berry,12.
One of Wilson's Best - By: KTS, 19 Dec 2006 I think that this is one of Wilson's best books--it introduces a traditional role model throughout the story, & has a significant parallelism to the life that this role model led. I think it is good that this runs through the story.
Also, Wilson has also once again succeededin showing children emotions--there is also the issue of overcoming class within the story, which becomes the actual moral at the end.
Overall it shows how friendship can help with many problems such as family violence & over demanding something off someone, which helps to contribute to a very good story.
Lola Rose - By: Qwertyuioplkjhg Fdsazxcvb Nmlpoknbhjuyhgvcft, 10 Aug 2006 
I think Lola Rose is a really good book for a book review. It gives you all the values you need to learn, it makes an excellent text response & the themes are something we can discussin class. The way JW bringsin The Diary of Ann Frank is also really nice. I think that it really is a book worth reading & everyone should consider it. It is such a page turner for kinds from 8-18... you'll all love it! Really!
Give it a go!
Another great job Jacqueline Wilson!
Ps. Great Illustrations by Nick Sharatt
Ps, Excellent illustrations by Quienten Blake
