History Creator / JacquelineWilson

** Referenced in ''Vicky Angel'' where Jade discovers that a newspaper has taken pictures of her without her consent, and run a factually incorrect piece about her as part of the coverage of Vicky's death.

* ParentalFavoritism: Ellie worries a lot that Eggs is both her Dad's and Anna's favourite. Nadine also thinks that her sister Nadine is their parents' favourite.

** In ''Lily Alone'', Lily's mother is deliberately neglectful and leaves Lily (who is only ten years old) alone at home to take care of her three preschool-aged siblings. She eventually goes on holiday expecting her ex-boyfriend to babysit, without having asked him first and unaware that he is also on holiday. This leaves the children alone at home with the prospect of being stuck by themselves for two weeks.

* PromotionToParent - Sadie in ''The Mum-Minder'', who must take over her ailing mother's childminding duties for a week. Jayni/Lola gets this to some extent in ''Lola Rose'' when her mother goes into hospital, leaving her alone to take care of her little brother.

** Matron Bottomly and Matron Peters in ''Hetty Feather''

* TeenPregnancy - [[spoiler: 16-year-old Martine]] gets pregnant in ''The Diamond Girls.'' In ''Secrets'', one of Treasure's sisters is a teenage mother, and it is hinted that Treasure's mother was a teenager when she had Treasure. April in ''Dustbin Baby'' believes that her mother was a young teenager who could not take care of a baby and was thus driven to abandon April. It is also noted that Jo from "The Lottie Project" became pregnant with Charlie while she was still in school.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Saul and Sara in ''Hetty Feather'', who die during a flu epidemic at the Foundling Hospital. Averted with Vicky in ''Vicky Angel'' and Jodie in ''My Sister Jodie'' who were somewhat less than angelic when they were alive.

* InspirationallyDisadvantaged - [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by ''Katy'', Wilson's modern re-imagining of ''Literature/WhatKatyDid.'' Wilson has publicly stated that she is concerned about the original novel (as well as other children's classics such as ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'' and ''Literature/Heidi'') giving the message that disabled people can physically heal by learning to become "good."

* InspirationallyDisadvantage - [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by ''Katy'', Wilson's modern re-imagining of ''Literature/WhatKatyDid.'' Wilson has publicly stated that she is concerned about the original novel (as well as other children's classics such as ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'' and ''Literature/Heidi'') giving the message that disabled people can physically heal by learning to become "good."

* ParentalFavoritism: Ellie worries a lot that Eggs is both her Dad's and Anna's favourite.

* GRatedSex - 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.

* DefeatEqualsFriendship: ''The Longest Whale Song'' has Ella becoming friends with Martha and Dori after getting into a fight with them.

*** Selma's mother and stepfather in ''The Butterfly Club''.

* AlwaysIdenticalTriplets: Maddie, Phil and Tina from ''The Butterfly Club''.

* AlphaBitch: Justine in ''The Story of Tracy Beaker'', Kim in ''Bad Girls'', Louise in ''How to Survive Summer Camp'', Chloe in ''Sleepovers'' and Rhiannon in "Candyfloss" are all examples.

*** Chloe in ''Sleepovers''.

*** ''Love Lessons'' is presented as one from ''Prue's'' perspective, because she doesn't end up with [[spoiler Mr. Raxberry]], although adults reading the book would consider it a better ending for her than the alternative.

* AlwaysIdenitcalTriplets: Maddie, Phil and Tina from ''The Butterfly Club''.

* ChildhoodMarriagePromise - In ''Hetty Feather'', Hetty has one with Jem. Sylvie and Carl had one in ''Kiss'', but [[spoiler: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.]]

** Jayni in ''Lola Rose'', and Star in ''The Illustrated Mum'', refuse to get help when they are in trouble without a responsible adult around (Jayni's mother is in hospital being treated for breast cancer; Star's mother has bipolar disorder and can't take of her children) out of fear of being taken into care and separated from their sibling. Although Star eventually does leave Dolphin for a while to be with her biological father, Mickey.

** An odd example in ''Little Darlings.'' It's Destiny's ''mum'' who's the innocent one. She met Danny Kilman, the famous rock star she had a crush on, at one of his gigs when she was eighteen, leading to Destiny's conception. Eleven years later she still thinks it was a serious albeit-brief relationship, despite all evidence pointing to it being a one-night stand.

* ShrinkingViolet - Violet in ''Midnight'' (aptly enough), Sylvie in ''Kiss'', Lizzie in ''Lizzie Zipmouth'', Beauty in ''Cookie'', Lolly in ''The Dream Palace'', Pearl in ''My Sister Jodie'', Garnet in ''Double Act'', Bliss in ''Lily Alone'' and several others.
** Lizzy in ''Lizzy Zipmouth'' isn't actually shy, she just refuses to speak due to being angry at her mother's remarriage. She grows out of it, eventually.

* TeacherStudentRomance - Prue and Mr Raxberry in ''Love Lessons''. Though he eventually decides he can't continue the relationship, he does kiss the underaged Prudence a few times and even tells her he loves her.

* TeenPregnancy - [[spoiler: 16-year-old Martine]] gets pregnant in ''The Diamond Girls.'' In ''Secrets'', one of Treasure's sisters is a teenage mother, and it is hinted that Treasure's mother was a teenager when she had Treasure. April in ''Dustbin Baby'' believes that her mother was a young teenager who could not take care of a baby and was thus driven to abandon April. It is also noted that Jo from "The Lottie Project" became pregnant with Charlie while she was still in school.

* TheUnreveal: It never is revealed in ''Little Darlings'' whether or not Destiny is the biological daughter of Danny Kilman or not. Evidence shows to support and not support this theory. To support it, Destiny is a fantastic singer, and bears resemblance to Danny and his daughter Sunset, but to not support it, her mother is clearly more than a little unhinged and overly obsessed with Danny, which makes it possible to show she might be making this up herself.

* MasculineBoyFeminineGirl - Hetty and Gideon in ''Hetty Feather''. Highlighted in one scene where their foster father tells them that, when they leave the Foundling Hospital, Hetty will go to work as a housemaid and Gideon as a soldier or sailor. They both agree they would each rather go into the opposite profession.

* AdaptationExpansion - The first season of the TV series ''The Story Of Tracy Beaker'' was more-or-less the first book. But while the second book is about Tracy staying with Cam, the second TV season sees her back at the Dumping Ground. The show then ran for a further three seasons (including one where she gets fostered by Cam ''again''), and ended two years before the third book came out. It has now started again with [[Series/TracyBeakerReturns a series chronicling Tracy returning to the Dumping Ground as a carer,]] and is going to continue with ''The Dumping Ground'' in 2013.

* DaddysGirl - Floss in ''Candyfloss'', Em in ''Clean Break'' (although he's an adoptive dad), Barbara in ''Deep Blue''. Deconstructed with Jayni in ''Lola Rose'' and Beauty in ''Cookie'', who behave like Daddy's Girls simply because they are afraid of their abusive fathers.

** Justine in the ''Tracy Beaker'' series

** Jayni in ''Lola Rose'', and Star in ''The Illustrated Mum'', refuse to get help when they are in trouble without a responsible adult around (Jayni's mother is in hospital being treated for breast cancer; Star's mother has bipolar disorder and can't take of her children) out of fear of being taken into care and separated from their sibling.

** Played straight in ''Love Lessons'' and ''Waiting for the Sky to Fall'' (see {{Expy}} above) where Grace and Nicola are both overweight and considerably mentally slow, although they're portrayed sympathetically.

* LittleMissBadass - Prue in ''Love Lessons'', Tracy Beaker, Tanya in ''Bad Girls'' and ''Dustbin Baby''

* MeaningfulName - In ''The Illustrated Mum'', it turns out that Dolphin's name came from the fact that [[spoiler: her father was the one to finally teach her mother to swim. Made all the more touching by the fact Marigold claims not to have remembered much about him.]]

* ParentalFavoritism

* PetTheDog: At the end of ''The Story of Tracy Beaker'', Tracy gives Justine hr favorite pen despite the latter being so nasty.

* TeacherStudentRomance - Prue and Mr Raxberry in ''Love Lessons''.

** Marigold mentions that her mother was abusive, and she spent most of her childhood in care homes.

* YourCheatingHeart - The source of a lot of the parental divorces that happen in the books. The stepdad in ''Clean Break'' is overheard by his stepdaughter as he plans to leave the family, Andy's parents split after her dad had an affair with Zen and Crystal's mother, and the rock star dad in ''Little Darlings'' has an affair with a much younger woman. Not unheard of among the younger cast either - see ''Girls in Tears'' [[spoiler: with Magda engaged in a passionate make-out session with Ellie's boyfriend]] and ''Falling Apart'' [[spoiler: where Simon's cheating on Tina and subsequently ditching her drives her to attempt suicide.]]

** Garnet from ''Bad Girls'' is mentioned in ''My Sister Jodie''. She and Ruby also reappear as adults in ''The Butterfly Club''.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent - ''Hetty Feather'' was Wilson's first historical novel. It can be seen as this trope for her whole career because, with the exception of ''The Worst Thing About My Sister'', all her books released since then have been historical fiction.

* PetTheDog: At the end of ''The Story of Tracy Beaker'', Tracy gives Justine candy despite the latter being so nasty.

** Wilson has stated in interviews that this trope is the reason for her decision to switch focus to historical fiction and stop writing books aimed at teenagers.