History Creator / JacquelineWilson

* ''Love Frankie''

* AstralProjection - Important to the plot of ''The Other Side'', although it's left open to the reader as to whether it's real or just in the heroine's imagination.
* AttemptedRape - [[spoiler:Magda]] in ''Girls Under Pressure''. Particularly notable since [[spoiler:Nadine]] was almost date-raped in ''Girls In Love''.

* BirthdayHater - April in ''Dustbin Baby'', understandably so.
* BittersweetEnding - Things generally get better for the protagonists throughout the course of the story, but often they have to acknowledge that life isn't perfect and/or sacrifice something important by the end. In ''Suitcase Kid'', for example, [[spoiler: Andy does end up slightly happier with her situation, but remarks wistfully that she still doesn't fully belong at any of her residences.]]

* BookEnds - ''Queenie'' begins with Elsie planning to go to the coronation of Elizabeth II with her grandmother; and ends sixty years later when Elsie expresses the hope that she'll live long enough to take her own granddaughter to Prince Charles's coronation.
* BrainlessBeauty - Cassie Plumstead.
* BreakoutCharacter - Hetty Feather, who has overtaken Tracy Beaker as Wilson's best known/most popular character. WordOfGod even states that Hetty is her favorite character.
* BrotherSisterTeam - Violet and Will in ''Midnight'', Hetty and Jem/Gideon in ''Hetty Feather'', Dorry and Jonnie in ''Katy''.
* BrokenBird: Ho ''boy,'' the majority of protagonists in Wilson's books are young girls going through some absolutely horrific things that no child should ever have to go through, but unfortunately many do in the UK and worldwide. To name a few, Tracy Beaker lives in a care home after being physically abused by her mum's boyfriend, Jade from ''Vicky Angel'' lives in poverty and suffers the death of her best and only friend, Magda and Nadine are almost date-raped in the ''Girls'' series, Dolphin and Star in ''The Illustrated Mum'' try to support their mentally unstable, alcoholic mother Marigold, Treasure from ''Secrets'' is disfigured by her violent stepdad, Beauty from ''Cookie'' and Jayni from ''Lola Rose'' also have violent fathers, and most if not all of these characters face bullying regularly at school.

** The driving plot behind ''The Butterfly Club.''

* CareerVersusFamily / CareerVersusMan - Touched upon a few times in the ''Girls'' series. In ''Girls Out Late'', Ellie, Nadine and Magda are upset when they discover that their favourite pop star has given up her career to please her boyfriend. In ''Girls in Tears'', Anna's career is a source of friction between her and Ellie's father; and it's mentioned that Ellie's mother gave up a promising career to raise her daughter.

* ChildhoodMarriagePromise - In ''Hetty Feather'', Hetty has one with Jem (and is upset initallywhen she learns that he subsequently promised to marry another of their foster sisters. However, she has surprisingly mature response when she reasons with herself that Jem was only trying to make them happy, and resolves to still take care of her foster sister despite feeling bitter) Sylvie and Carl had one in ''Kiss'', but [[spoiler:Carl later discovers he is gay, leading to heartbreak for Sylvie who had always believed he would grow up to fall in love with her.]]

* CloudCuckoolander - Lampshaded in ''Opal Plumstead'' when Cassie daydreams about being the wife of a man twice her age that she's been out with, and Opal tells her that she is living in "cloud-cuckoo-land".

* PlayingATree - In ''The Left-Outs'', Joan hopes to shine at her new school by winning a leading role in the school play (''The Pied Piper of Hamelin''); but is humiliated when she's cast as a rat with no lines. She fights back by starting her own drama club and putting on a play with other kids who had been cast as rats or background props.

* PromotionToParent - Sadie in ''The Mum-Minder'', who must take over her ailing mother's childminding duties for a week. Jayni/Lola Rose gets this to some extent in ''Lola Rose'' when her mother goes into hospital, leaving her alone to take care of her little brother.

* PseudoRomanticFriendship

* PunnyName - Billy "Biscuits" [=McVitie=], since [=McVitie=] is one of the biggest biscuit-making companies in Britain.

* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender - In ''The Diamond Girls'', the main character's mother tries to raise her new baby girl as a boy; having been convinced while she was pregnant that she would finally have a son this time (she already has four daughters.) She does get found out and agree to stop the charade.

* {{Squick}}: ''Love Lessons'' tells the story of a school teacher's affair with a 14-year-old student. It's told entirely from her perspective and due to her youth and naivety, she doesn't see anything wrong with it, but older readers will hopefully feel a bit ill about the teacher going with it, though he breaks it off before it goes too far.
* StacysMom - Mr "Rax" Raxberry in ''Love Lessons'', Coral's employer in ''This Girl'', Paris Walker in ''Rose Rivers''.
* StartMyOwn - In ''The Left-Outs'', a group of kids who didn't get speaking parts in the school play decide to put on their own production.

* TeacherStudentRomance - Prue and Mr Raxberry in ''Love Lessons''. Though he eventually decides he can't continue the relationship, he does kiss the underaged Prudence a few times and even tells her he loves her.

* TheFilmOfTheBook - ''Dustbin Baby'', ''Double Act'', ''Best Friends'', ''The Illustrated Mum'' and ''Katy'' became made-for-TV movies. ''Four Children and It'' also has a movie in the works and Wilson is reportedly in talks for film adaptations of ''Lola Rose'' and/or ''My Sister Jodie''.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry - Subverted in ''Opal Plumstead''- while Cassie and Opal have a relatively good relationship, they do fall into the same categories: Cassie is the pretty one, and Opal is the smart one.
** Played straighter in ''The Diamond Girls'', especially between Jude/Rochelle/Dixie. Martine tends to consider herself above it, as she's the oldest.

* ''The Lottie Project''

** Lolly in ''The Dream Palace'' dearly loved her late father and fitted this trope when he was alive. In the present day, she's desperate to hang onto her memories of her relationship with him, and hangs around a now-disused hotel where he used to take her for tea. [[spoiler:Subverted when Greg tries to help her re-live a day trip she took with her father, causing her to remember that he wasn't so perfect after all.]]