Andys Mum and Dad have split up and Andy and her toy rabbit Radish don't know where to live, with Andy's Mum, her new boyfriend and three kids, or to live with Andy's Dad, his new girlfriend and her two kids. She finds it upsetting and difficult so she runs away back to her old house.

The Suitcase Kid starts of with andy and her mum and dad have split up so they had to move out of mulbury cottage they go to counciling sessions and the lady asks andy what she would like to happen she says that she wants her radish her toy rabbit her mum and her dad to move back to mulbury cottage.

i love the suitcase kid ssoooooooooo much

Jacqueline Wilson has been a writer ever since she was 17 years of age. She first started writing professionally when she worked for the popular teenage magazine, Jackie and ever since then she has been writing.
Wilson has led a very interesting life. Jacqueline Wilson was born on December in 1945, in Bath, England. She was the daughter of Harry Albert and Margaret Aitken. At age 19 Jacqueline married William Millar Wilson and she had a daughter, Emma Fiona. Jacqueline went to school at Coombe Girls School in Surrey where she later went back as an old girl to talk to the pupils about her books. She knew that she wanted to be a writer from a very early age and wrote her first little book, about a family called The Maggots, when she was only nine years of age. She graduated at Carshalton Technical College. Later she worked for the magazine Jackie that was named after her. Now she lives in Kingston upon Thames, where she was brought up, in a little house stuffed with more than 15,000 books on her shelves. Jacqueline writes everywhere she goes, in libraries, bookshops, kitchen table and even queues. She writes with passion and avidly collects books. Jacqueline has published over seventy books. Jacqueline's books are bestsellers. She has sold over eight million books in the United Kingdom alone. All her books have been translated into twenty-three different languages.
Jacqueline has been on countless shortlists and has won numerous awards, including The Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award in 1995 for The Bed and Breakfast Star, the Smarties Prize, the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the Children's Book Award for Double Act. The Illustrated Mum was on the shortlist for the 1999 Whitbread Children's Book Award and has won the 1999 Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. In 2000 Jacqueline had written six of the top ten best-selling children's paperbacks. She sells an average 60,000 books a month and was the only living author in the top ten in a recent Waterstone's BBC Bookworm poll to find the nation's favourite children's book. Jacqueline was the forth best-selling author in the United Kingdom in 2001 and the most borrowed female author from secondary schools all over the world. Jacqueline is very talented as she can write over one thousand words in one hour. This month she is celebrating having sold 10 million copies of her books.

Every week she receives between 200 and 300 letters from readers (mostly children). She says 'Lots of children look on me as someone who understands, which is a wonderful feeling but also a great responsibility. I can make things turn out OK for children in my books but, although I try to be helpful, in life I haven't got any answers at all. Sometimes, it is frightening.' Jacqueline has had letters from children writing: 'Promise me my Mum is going to get better...' Her gift as a writer is to see life from the child's point of view. She comments, "The worst thing for children who have had to grow up too quickly is that they can't be relaxed. They can't just glide through things or be ordinarily silly."
In Lola Rose one of her new books, the mother behaves like an irresponsible baby. She is loving but drinks too much, is hopeless with money, and does not know how to look after her children. Wilson says: 'sometimes I upset adult readers because I write from the child's point of view about parents who let them down.'
She remembers a girl in her class at school: 'Her mum had cancer, she had to go home at lunchtimes to sort her out, a huge responsibility for a 10-year-old.' One day, the girl was crying in the toilets and Jacqueline was trying to comfort her. Back in the classroom, the teacher roared at them for being late. 'I was a timid child but I shouted back at him: 'Poor Christine, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?' She expected to be punished. But she wasn't. She could have written the scene for, in her books, there are always moments where things turn out better than expected.
Jacqueline Wilson includes good, kind behaviour alongside bad. Some people will turn out to be unexpectedly kind, an answer to prayer. Jacqueline writes about children's lives.
She imagines how it would be like for a child growing up now. She doesn't base anything on her childhood; she gets her ideas from her imagination. Jacqueline Wilson tackles issues such as death (Vicky Angel), divorce (The Suitcase Kid), living in care homes (Tracey Beaker) and manic depression (The Illustrated Mum). The books are also full of references to modern day life. However, the issues in the pages and the emotions of the characters are timeless and universal. Jacqueline Wilson does not simplify her characters emotions or finish her stories with "happily ever after". Despite this, her stories are always told in a funny way with amusing and interesting characters so that one page you will be close to tears and the next you will be chuckling. She does not idealise childhood as being all sweetness and light but addresses real problems that children face.

For children going through a similar experience it is very helpful and comforting to read a story about the same thing, especially when done as skillfully as Wilson does.

The principal characters in her books all have certain things in common. With the exception of Buried Alive and Cliffhanger, all the leading characters are girls and often outsiders or awkward in some way. For instance, Tracey Beaker is a dreamer who likes football and India in Secrets is a book lover ostracised by her classmates. The books are always in the first person that makes it seem as though the character is talking to you, telling you their story as though you are their friend. Her characters come across as ordinary children in difficult circumstances.
Jacqueline writes for children from the ages 5- 15 years of age. When she first started writing she wrote crime stories written for adults. For example Truth and Dare published in 1973 and surprisingly it still had children as the characters. I've always liked writing about children' Jacqueline says.
Her style is different from any ordinary author. She does not write about fantasy, or make believe stories. She writes very realistic e.g. her stories are unique. They are fun to read because they have twists to it. Jacqueline's stories have elements of sadness, but she always includes humour.
Her stories are so realistic. She has a sensitive understanding for modern children, they way they live and the problems they face, with a delightful sense of fantasy and a good sense of humour. Her books are great fun. Many children that read her books say that they aren't complex and there isn't anything amazing happening in the storyline but they are so interesting you can not put the book down.
Jacqueline is unique in many ways. She deals with children with one-parent families. It is very clever because she has never experienced it before in her life. She uses her knowledge and understanding of life to come up with these situations for her books. 'I haven't been influenced by anyone' Wilson says.
In all her books there are similarities such as the way the characters are similar and how they grow up. The Illustrated Mum is the story of Dolphin, a young girl living in the wake of her mother's depression, and her sister Star, who is on the verge of adulthood. Both cope with living in a very dysfunctional household where their tattoo-crazy mum has real difficulties in coping too. It all starts when Marigold the mum started going weird again on her birthday. Star the older sister remembered that birthdays were often bad times. This book is enjoyable for ages between 8-12.
Another book is for ages 13-15 years of age. It is called Vicky Angel; is about 2 girls named Jade and Vicky. They are always together, Jade usually taking the lead from her larger-than-life best friend. But when Vicky is killed in a tragic accident Jade has to come to terms with her death. But when her best friend is killed Jade cannot believe she'll never see her again. But fortunately for her, Vicky has no intention of being dead lying down. She comes back to make her presence felt, no matter what Jade is doing. In lessons, out running or trying to make new friends, Vicky is there in the background keeping tabs on her best friend!
The Illustrated Mum and Vicky Angel have distinct similarities. They both are very realistic and they have around the same lifestyle. They aren't complex, they are easy to read and they are easily enjoyed. Thats all i know about her so far. But I'm obsessed with her works!

This book is so sad. It shows it how parents splitting up effects the childrens lives.

I thought The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson was very good it shows the aspect of the very hint of a girl loving her suitcase-good for her!

The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson was a really emotional story and easy to relate to if you are going throught the same thing as Andrea. I loved reading it as the characters made me laugh and i felt what they were going through and could see it from all the characters point of view. What i can relate most is Andrea being teased by Katey as my step sister treats me the same way. I also knows how she feels about her stepfather and her stepmother as i also feel they are both trying to replace my real parents. I would recomend this to everyone even adults as it is just such a good story.

Andy`s family always lived in mulberry cottage with her mum and dad and her. Now she has to live with the baboon (her mums bot friend) becoz her mum and dad broke up. baboon has three kids and andy has to live with her mum 1 week and her dad another week. i will tell u no more. i would read it if i were u so go on read it, ok. bye bye!

This story is about a little girl called Andy. She used to live happily with her Mum and Dad in Mulberry Cottage until they split up. After that, Andy lived one week with her mum and the other week with her dad, but she still wishes that she was back at Mulberry Cottage, and doesn't feel at home with either of her parents' new partners. She discovers a garden which reminds her of her old garden, and she climbs over the wall to play there with her toy rabbit Radish. As time goes on, Andy sneaks into the garden whenever she can. This gets her into a lot of trouble with school, with her mum and with her dad, but it all turns out well in the end.