The Dare Game The Dare Game The Dare Game also known as I Dare You, Tracy Beaker is a children's novel written by Jacqueline Wilson and illustrated by Nick Sharratt, first published in 2000. It is a sequel to the best-selling "The Story of Tracy Beaker". After the events of The Story of Tracy Beaker, Tracy is living with her foster mother Cam. Their relationship is tense; Tracy has grown to resent Cam for imposing what she sees as an excessively restrictive lifestyle. Tracy also has troubles at school, where she does not get along with her teacher or classmates. After discovering an
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