Sylvie in Kiss believes she's in love with her friend Carl and that they will get married when they grow up. As they become teenagers, Sylvie clings to her image of him, unable to understand that he's changing as a person and has fallen for a guy.

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. Childhood Marriage Promise - In Hetty Feather, Hetty has one with Jem (and is upset when she learns that he subsequently promised to marry another of their foster sisters.) Sylvie and Carl had one in Kiss, but Carl later discovers he is gay, leading to heartbreak for Sylvie who had always believed he would grow up to fall in love with her. Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. She is now one of Britain’s bestselling and most beloved children’s authors. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold. Love Frankie focuses on Frankie falling in love with Sally and eventually coming out as a lesbian (although her family thinks she's too young to know that for sure.)Aunt Susannah in Baby Love is much younger and trendier than Laura's own parents, but becomes especially important when she takes in Laura and Kathy so that Laura won't have to put Kathy up for adoption. Defeat Equals Friendship: The Longest Whale Song has Ella becoming friends with Martha after getting into a fight with her. Elsa in The Bed and Breakfast Star, Ruby in Double Act, and Tracy Beaker all become friends with groups of boys this way. 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. Lolly in The Dream Palace dearly loved her late father and fitted this trope when he was alive. In the present day, she's desperate to hang onto her memories of her relationship with him, and hangs around a now-disused hotel where he used to take her for tea. Subverted when Greg tries to help her re-live a day trip she took with her father, causing her to remember that he wasn't so perfect after all.

Even the Guys Want Him - Midnight: "All the girls at my school are in love with Will. And some of the boys." Perry in The Primrose Railway Children sometimes comes across as younger than his little sister Phoebe in some of his behaviours, i.e, demanding to do things right away, repeating sentences over and over, having a meltdown if he gets overwhelmed or completely failing to grasp the danger of entering a tunnel while a train is coming through it. However much of this behaviour is consistent with him being on the autism spectrum and in other respects he can come across as quite mature for his age. Baby Love only mentions Leon pulling at Laura's clothes before she pushes him off and runs away, and then she recounts what happened in her head to make it clear what actually happened. There may be some kind of Bilingual Bonus here, as it implies that he asked for permission in French, but Laura didn't understand one of the words, assuming it meant "cuddle". April in Dustbin Baby is haunted by the question of why her birth mother abandoned her and is traumatised by her adoptive mother's suicide.Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings. Not So Different" Remark: Ella in The Longest Whale Song overhears her friend Sally talking about how she's become mean and moody after her mother's coma and hears another girl Dory agree that her friend Martha was "just the same." She later learns that Martha has an abusive home life. While Ella's own stepfather and mother are not abusive, she recognises that Martha is probably feeling as miserable as herself, which causes her to make the effort to be friends instead of enemies. Dorry in Katy has a huge appetite and will eat pretty much anything. Katy discovers he kept a "diary" that was basically just a list of what he ate that day. The parents of The Suitcase Kid use their daughter as little more than an inconvenient chess piece. Though they equally love their daughter, and are both horrified when she goes missing at night (even getting the police to form a search party). Oblivious Adoption: Will, up until the beginning of the novel, didn't know he was adopted. The entire book is arguably him sulking over not being told about it.