Cliffhanger (Biscuit Barrel, 2)

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Eye Scream: In Emerald Star, Gideon is discharged from the army because he lost an eye in the course of duty (and is close to losing the sight in the other one.) This apparently happened due to having so much guilt about shooting another man that he kept seeing it, so he attempted to blind himself. Implied to have been the case with Katy's parents in Katy; Katy's father has gray hair and is a senior doctor (suggesting he is middle-aged) whereas her mother is described as having been very young. His second wife Izzie is also mentioned as being much younger than him. The Münchausen - Tracy Beaker, sort of. The tall tales she tells are about her mother rather than herself.

National Stereotypes: Referenced and averted in Secrets when India says that you might think her au pair, who's Australian, would be cheerful, suntanned and outgoing. She is actually sullen, pale-skinned and doesn't like talking to anyone - usually leaving India alone to do what she likes. Family Relationship Switcheroo - In The Power of the Shade, May's "great-aunt" turns out to be her grandmother, who had an affair with her sister's husband. 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. Never Learned to Talk: In Sleepovers, Daisy's sister Lily has never learned to talk because of her disability. Subverted in The Greatest Sleepover In the World, where Lily has now been taught to communicate via Makaton and become much more outgoing and sociable. In The Diamond Girls, Sue's daughters range in age from 10 to 16 and she then has another baby. Dixie finds out her dad's current wife has recently had another baby as well, meaning she has two siblings a decade younger than she.

Normally timid Beauty Cookson manages to intimidate Skye, her primary bully, after Skye calls her mother a slag. People assume India from Secrets is this, but she usually averts it, noting that she plays it straight only when defending Anne Frank's diary against the girls in her class. Em in "Clean Break" is associated with hippos; she has a large, chunky frame and school bullies often refer to her as "The Hippo". 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. TIM NEARLY DIED!!!! So they were doing this cliff hanging thing (abseiling) and when it was Tim's turn he was specifically told NOT to let go of the rope.

Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition - In Midnight, Violet owns a first edition copy of The Smoke Fairy by Casper Dream, which is now highly prized by collectors (it is his first published work and only a few copies exist, as it was subsequently banned from sale.) Violet's aware of how valuable it would be, but treasures it so much that she will never sell it. 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. Canon Foreigner: The Tracy Beaker TV series introduced several characters who weren't in the original books, especially in series 2 and onward once the show took a more original direction. The TV adaptation of Hetty Feather also introduces a new character called Mathias, a boy with whom Hetty conspires to organise a mass escape from the Foundling Hospital. Hetty is also given another friend named Mary, a younger girl and also gives focus on the boys in the hospital. Once the show shifts to Calender Hall, a whole new cast of characters original to the show are also introduced, leaving Hetty, Gideon, and Sheila as the only characters from the book.

Calling the Old Man Out: Knowing full well her father will beat her mother the moment she and Kenny go to bed, Jayni yells at him how she hates him for ruining everything. This is the catalyst that prompts him to hit her for the first time and for Nikki to run away with the kids. Karma Houdini: It's mainly due to Rule of Drama, but schools and teachers in Wilson's books get away with murder, at least by modern day standards. Apparently nobody thinks to lodge a complaint against bullying or abusive teachers, so the main characters just suffer in silence. Will sews up all of Violet's fairies in Midnight after she destroys them during an argument, then hangs them up in a tree outside her window.

In My Sister Jodie, Pearl's mother has another baby at the end of the book ( after Jodie's death), who would be 10 years younger than Pearl and 14 years younger than Jodie. Hippie Parents: In Amber, Amber was raised in a commune by her hippie mother and is still there even though the '60s are long over. She is desperate for a "normal" home and lifestyle, which drives a lot of the story's conflict.

In Katy, the title character is withdrawn from a class without the consent of, or even discussion with, the pupil and her family, purely on the say-so of somebody else's mother. 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.