Are
You Listening?
Lydia
Sturton
Lothian
Books:
Takeaways
159p
pbk
0-7344-0198-1
Join
eleven-year-old Nicky Walters as she tells the story of her problem. Nicky
has a problem in her life, she isn’t afraid to tell the truth. Now
normally telling the truth isn’t a bad thing, but it lands Nicky in deep
trouble. This is because she tells the truth to EVERYONE, even the school
principal. The result is that Nicky gets expelled from school, but not
before she insults her dad, the bus driver, her pre-school teacher, AND
her worst enemy Marina.
This
story would be for late primary school readers because of Nicky’s age.
The author has chosen a suitable and appropriate topic for a book for this
category of readers. The storyline is easy to follow but in a few places
mentions a few things that we (as the readers) think are totally
irrelevant to the story. The story is easily readable and is in
‘modern’ language that the children of today can understand. To add to
this the typing is easy to read and ‘spaced out’. This is a
‘read-alone’ book as it is in the reader’s mind that he/she must
picture the scenes and stop to think about the book from time to time, an
impossible task when a story is been read to a group. I think this book is
a good, enjoyable and ‘truthful’ read.
