Book 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 . . .
JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known and hugely popular
author who served as Children's Laureate from 2005-7. She has been
awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the British
Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award
(for The Illustrated Mum), the Smarties Prize and the
Children's Book Award (for Double Act, for which she was also
highly commended for the Carnegie Medal). In 2002 Jacqueline was given
an OBE for services to literacy in schools and in 2008 she was
appointed a Dame. She was the author most borrowed from British
libraries in the last decade.
'A brilliant writer of wit and subtlety' THE TIMES
'She should be prescribed for all cases of reading reluctance'
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
'Has a rare gift for writing lightly and amusingly about emotional
issues' BOOKSELLER
