Mary is fed up of being wrapped in cotton wool by her gran. Being blind
doesn't mean that she can't 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 children's authors ever. She has
won many of the UK's top children's book awards including The Gold Smarties
Prize, The Sheffield Children's Book Award, the Children's Book of the Year and
the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and has been shortlisted for the
Whitbread Children's 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."