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Floss's parents are divorced, and she divides up her week, spending five days with her mum, her new step-dad and her baby half-brother. The other two days Floss spends with her dad, helping him to run his greasy spoon cafe. But their simple arrangement is thrown into disarray when Floss's mum decides to move to Australia. Making the difficult decision to stay at home, Floss moves in permanently with her dad and they muddle along happily together, surviving on chip butties and enjoying visits to the local funfair. But disaster strikes - Dad's money troubles catch up with him and they have to move out of the cafe. They're homeless - but can their new fairground friends help out? Could Dad and Floss be destined for a life on the road?

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'Wilson is [in] top social-observing form.' -- The Independent 'As usual, Wilson's book provokes both laughter and thought.' -- Junior Education 'Another absorbing slice of family and school life.' -- The Children's Bookseller 'Jacqueline Wilson fans will love this new adventure drawn straight from the reality of the modern teenager.' -- The Good Book Guide 'Wilson moves away from familiar mum territory to cast her acute eye on dads.' -- The Guardian

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Jacqueline Wilson is a hugely successful children's author and has won a number of prestigious awards, including the British Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. In 2002 Jacqueline received an OBE for services to literacy in schools. She was the highest-borrowed author in British libraries in the last decade. Sophie Aldred was born in Greenwich, England and brought up in Blackheath, South East London. She studied drama at university and spent time with children's drama companies in small productions before she became Ace in the immensely popular Doctor Who in 1987. Aldred has had a varied and busy television career in children's programming, as a voiceover artist for television advertisements and providing voices for animated series such as Bob the Builder, Sergeant Stripes and Dennis and Gnasher.

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