Tracy Beaker Returns Tracy Beaker Returns Tracy Beaker Returns was a British television programme. Based upon the novels by Jacqueline Wilson, it is the spin-off series to "The Story of Tracy Beaker". The series stars Dani Harmer as protagonist Tracy Beaker. The third and final series ended on 23 March 2012. A spin-off entitled "The Dumping Ground" started airing on 4 January 2013. When author Tracy Beaker is arrested for using her foster mother, Cam's credit card to publish her autobiography, Tracy seeks refuge at the Elm Tree House, a care home nicknamed "The Dumping Ground" where she used to live as a
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor book in 1970, and then translated into English by Randolph Hogan in 1986. The story is written in the first-person from the perspective of the sailor, 20-year-old Luis Alejandro Velasco, and was in fact signed by Velasco as author when it was first published in 1955. Not until 1970 when it was published as a book was García Márquez's name first publicly associated with the story. Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez began his literary career as a newspaper writer. In 1955, he wrote a series of newspaper stories about a shipwrecked sailor who nearly died on account of negligence by