The Lottie Project
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4.6 • 103 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
Hi! I'm Charlie (DON'T call me Charlotte - ever!). History is boring, right? Wrong!
The Victorians weren't all deadly dull and drippy. Lottie certainly isn't. She's eleven - like me - but she's left school and has a job as a nursery maid. Her life is really hard, just work work work, but I bet she'd know what to do about my mum's awful boyfriend and his wimpy little son.
I bet she wouldn't mess it all up like I do . . .
A hilarious, witty and perceptive tale of two girls from very different times but experiencing very similar problems, from award-winning author Jacqueline Wilson.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wilson (Double Act) here introduces an animated heroine who delivers droll observations in a self-assured voice with a decidedly British accent. "I love fooling around, doing crazy things and being a bit sassy and making everyone laugh," announces Charlie (short for Charlotte). Her engaging prattle chronicles events at school--where she tangles with her teacher, bickers with her best friends and works on a project about Victorian life--as well as happenings at home. Charlie's newly unemployed single mother takes on three part-time positions, the most notable being a job as caregiver for a youngster who lives with his father. Much to the girl's chagrin, her mother takes a fancy to her employer. Their evolving relationship provides the backdrop for the novel's most dramatic and poignant scenes, in which Wilson reveals her ability to elicit tears as well as laughter. Between chapters, readers find reproduced "pages" from Charlie's school report--journal-like entries written by a poor Victorian girl who leaves home to help support her family. Wilson creatively reshapes Charlie's own experiences to depict the plight of a girl living 100 years earlier, thus adding new dimension to Charlie's perceptions while offering intriguing period particulars. Sharratt's lively, doodled spot drawings further reinforce the protagonist's view of life, both present and past. To borrow a phrase from Charlie, it would be "easy peasy, simple pimple" to welcome her back. Ages 8-12.
Customer Reviews
Reveiw
Hello my name is lareb and I'm eleven years of age I found this book very intriguing when I read it it really pulled me in with it's breath taking story line it really got me on the edge of my seati just couldn't put It down
The story is about a girl who has to do a history project on the Victorians and when she takes out a diary of a girl from the library she feels she is leading another life the life of the girl in the book
I would advise young readers who love j.w to read this because I is one of the very best books I have ever read
One gooooood book!
This Is my fave book! And it’s very funny! I luv it! Guys u must read it!!!! ❤️😍
Tragic.
Poor Robin develops pneumonia, and has to go to hospital! Jo isn’t cross, but mark is practically FUMING!