Red Box Books
The Suitcase Kid By Jaqueline Wilson
£5.50
Ages 9-11 A very sensitive subject brilliantly told.
| When my parents split up they didn't know what to do with me... My family always lived at Mulberry Cottage. Mum, Dad, me - and Radish, my Sylvanian rabbit. But now Mum lives with Bill the Baboon and his three kids. Dad lives with Carrie and her twins. And where do I live? I live out of a suitcase. One week with Mum's new family, one week with Dad's. It's as easy as A B C. That's what everyone says. But all I want is to go home - back to Mulberry Cottage… |
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| 'Endearing reading.... Andrea’s story is far from gloomy. On the contrary, her predicament is told with humour and understanding... Jacqueline Wilson has written her best children's book yet with this one. It will help anyone at the wrong end of family rows' Daily Mail, Junior Book of the Week
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| 'Honest, angry, sometimes sad and always very readable. There is also a near-happy ending, which is both moving and for the most part credible. Adults could learn something here about the emotional turmoil suffered by a child with divided loyalties' The Times Educational Supplement
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| 'Jacqueline Wilson has taken a very sensitive subject as the theme for her latest book,... The book does succeed in expressing the very real pain many children feel in Andy's position; and some children may take comfort from the realisation that they are not alone' The School Librarian ISBN:0440867738 |
