Mary is fed up of being wrapped in cotton wool by her gran. Being blind
doesnt mean that she cant look after herself. So Mary decides to go down to
the sweetshop by herself for the first time but the trip is more eventful than
she could ever have imagined and the shop is burgled whilst Mary is in there!
How will she escape and get home safely? About the Author.

Jacqueline Wilson is one of the most popular childrens authors ever. She has
won many of the UKs top childrens book awards including The Gold Smarties
Prize, The Sheffield Childrens Book Award, the Childrens Book of the Year and
the Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize and has been shortlisted for the
Whitbread Childrens Book Prize and Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal.
Many of her books have also been adapted for TV, stage and radio. In 2008,
Jacqueline was made a Dame of the British Empire.