Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Illustrator: Nick Sharratt
Publisher Randon House, $14.95
Age Group: 8-11 years
"God, look at my neck! It's getting all wrinkly," she said.
She touched the taut white skin worriedly while we did our best to reassure her. "I look so old."
"You're not old at all. You're young," said Star.
"Thirty-three," Marigold said gloomily.
"I wish you hadn"t written that right slap bang in the middle of your card, darling. I can't believe thirty-three. That was the age Jesus was when he died, did you know that?"
Marigold knew lots about the Bible because she was one in a Church Home.
"Thirty-three," she kept murmuring.
"He tried so hard too. He liked kids, he liked bad women, he stuck up for all the alternative people. He'd have been so cool. And what did they do? They stuck him up on a cross and tortured him to death."
