As Jacqueline's all other books, it didn't have the perfect ending of "lived happily ever after," yet it was such a happy one! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. When Alice's dad gets a new job in Scotland, Gemma is distraught and does everything she can to keep Alice for herself, scared that she'll find a new best friend in Scotland and forget all about her. Nothing can ever break them apart, but when Gemma sneaks a peek in Alice's Diary their friendship may be crushed. Gemma and Alice will forever be apart unless they think of something to help them get through them growing apart.

A question that many of our students ask themselves at this time of the year, when a good friend is moving away. Alice is a quiet and shy girly girl who is the exact opposite of Gemma, and that's why they get along so well. It was lovely to read this one to my daughter and reminisce, but also to see how different it seemed to me reading now as an adult. When Alice and Gemma's birthday comes up it is very emotional for both Gemma and Alice because its thier first birthday apart. The story ends on Gemma (and Alice's) birthday, when she celebrates with her family, Biscuits, and Biscuits' family.

Gemma and Alice have been best friends since they were both born on the same day in the same hospital.

The themes that appear in the story are things that children can really relate to, for example, moving away and making new friends.It doesn't matter that Gemma loves soccer while Alice prefers drawing, or that Gemma is always getting into trouble while Alice is a model student and daughter. Luckily her grandad decided to take Gemma on a road trip where the girls were reunited but Gemma met Flora Alices new friend, the eventful meet ended with a funny incident with a cake!

The characters - other than Biscuits and grandad, I found the characters unlikeable and hard to put up with. In Best Friends, Gemma and Alice have been together since birth - literally, they were born on the same day and have been inseparable ever since, despite being complete opposites (Gemma is loud, selfish, and bossy, while Alice is timid, meek, and sensible). I think that the author wrote this book to show that anyone can get over things that could be major or minor.

Gemma and Alice have known each other all their lives, but when Gemma reads Alice's diary at a sleepover, it eventually leads her to discover Alice is to England moving. I didn't really like the morals in the book - feeling like you can't move on from a friendship or have other friends, eating everything in sight to the point of throwing up because you won't politely say no, an unwillingness to share, etc.

Devastatingly Alice’s father gets a job that is situated in Scotland and it appears that their friendship will be all but lost due to the distance they will be apart, they now have to navigate through life without one another and make new friends.Billy ' Biscuits' Mcvitie: The girls' schoolfriend, a large, tubby boy who loves food, both eating and cooking. In the TV series she is a ceasing smoker, which was not mentioned in the book, and works very hard as a self employed beauty therapist. He moved to Australia due to the fact they had no money, at least in Best Friends they get reunited thanks to Gemma’s Grandad.