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Love Lessons

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Jacqueline Wilson makes a spectacular return to form with her honeyed view of a taboo topic in her latest book, Love Lessons. The story revolves around a fourteen-year-old named Prudence who falls in love with her teacher - a story many, including myself, can relate to.

The story is beautiful and well-written, and although many reviewers have slated the unseemly romance that blossoms between Prudence and Rax - claiming it 'preposterous', I think Ms Wilson handles it with care and without judgement... for the most part. While Prue is a perfect example of a teenage girl with her first borderline obsessive crush, I think Rax could have done with an extra dose of morals - I can accept the possibility for a teacher to fall for one of his pupils, but he fails to then be a respectable character in acting upon his feelings for Prue.

Aside from that, Jacqueline Wilson has delivered one of her finest books to date, even if the reader has to stretch their realm of disbelief a wee bit to accept the essential plotline. As a girl who herself had a relationship with a teacher that went a little outside the boundaries, I know from whereof I speak.


And what is the lesson that we learn from Lessons in Love? NOT that love conquers all, certainly - but that love conquers all of us, and that we cannot choose who it is that we love.

I liked this book, even though I am sick of Jacqueline Wilson's books now after reading so many of them. I loved the main character Prudence!

Pruedence and her sister Grace hate their life.They have ugly and babyish clothes and a super strict dad who home schools them.Pruedence sneeks of to a local shopping village when she is supposed to go to maths tutoring and spends the tutoring fees on herslef. Her strict dad finds out he is furious.

When her dad has to go to a hospita due to a stroke , Pruedences mother sends her and her sister to school. Grace love school and makes 2 friends but Pruedence finds it hard to fit in.She is always being teased by mean girls in her class who are always bitching about her. Prue then finds herself falling in love with her art teacher , Rax. When Rax asks her to babysit his children Prue is delighted.

Love Lessons is about Pruedence's and Rax's relationship , how Prue copes with school and how Prue copes with her family.

I think that this book should not be exposed to children under 9 because some parts of the book are inapropitet .

Personly i think that the book it a very good read because it exposes the life of a sad 14 year old girl.

I was a bit dissapionted with this book because compared to the other Jacqueline Wilson books like Double Act and My sister Jodie so thats why Love Lessons only deserved 3 stars.

I absolutely loved this book! It was very sweet, and I especially liked the main character, Prudence. The character seemed very innocent but not obnoxious or prudish, which I liked. I felt I could really relate to her as a sheltered person who just wanted to live her life a little bit!

I don't understand why some people insist that any relationship involving a young person, high school age as in this book for example, must be nothing more than a "silly crush," as if none of us have genuine emotions before the age of 30? I often see that trend in movies and books, that "young love" must be an illusion, which is absolutely ridiculous. That is one of the things I appreciated most about this novel, that the author treated the main character's feelings with respect. She was obviously a very mature and intelligent girl, and mature, intelligent people have genuine feelings, yes, even before the age of 30, shockingly. Also, although some people would frown on the fact that the teacher was married, if you paid attention to the story, his wife was totally mean and disrespectful to him--no wonder he wasn't happy! I also appreciated the fact that the author chose to have the feelings returned by the teacher. These kinds of relationships do happen, and although it is much better if it occurs in a college setting where both people are over 18, no one can say that love doesn't exist in situations that happen not to be "the norm." Why would anyone want to be normal anyway? I'd rather not live at all. Thanks for this adorable story, Ms. Wilson! =)

when i recieved this book from my gran i was terribly surprised at the smuttyness of the novel, im usually a fan of jacqueline wilson books but love lessons is nothing more than a trashy porn novel. i would not recomend any one under the age of 18 to read this book unless they want to be deeply scarred by the visions of peadofila which are present.