TRACY BEAKER'S NOT exactly sure what her mother does, because Tracy has been in foster care for as long as she can remember. Maybe one day Tracy...
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Sep 25, 2011
Gemma
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I loved this book when I was a teenager because I had experience of foster care and could connect with Tracy's character. I have read it since and still have a copy on the bookshelf.
Jacqueline Wilson shows that there are children who do not grow up with the 'traditional two parent family' to bring them up,and I feel that it is important for children to learn that there is a variety of families and that it can be just as 'normal' to grow up without two parents. The book also go some More...
Jacqueline Wilson shows that there are children who do not grow up with the 'traditional two parent family' to bring them up,and I feel that it is important for children to learn that there is a variety of families and that it can be just as 'normal' to grow up without two parents. The book also go some More...
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Nov 06, 2011
Two Bibliomaniacs
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Curiosity finally got the better of us (not for the first time...), forcing a full investigation into the mysterious entity known as Jacqueline Wilson. While we’ve never heard of her books, she’s a BBC Big Read force to be reckoned with. With 4 novels in the top 100 and 14 overall, her stats are second only to Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett. How have we not read one of her books?
Tracy Beaker is an orphan with a fiery personality and a steely sinew who never cries - thank you ve More...
Tracy Beaker is an orphan with a fiery personality and a steely sinew who never cries - thank you ve More...
Sep 08, 2011
Nazrul
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Tracy Beaker is Jacqueline Wilson’s best loved character, she is a feisty, real life and very believable 10 year old, always with a story to tell. She’s loud, defensive, very cheeky and rude, yet at the same time she is funny and very loveable. However, behind all this ‘front’, there stands a sad young girl who needs to be comforted and loved.
Tracy has been living in a care home for as long as she can remember. It is here where she has made many friend.. and enemies. She always wonder More...
Tracy has been living in a care home for as long as she can remember. It is here where she has made many friend.. and enemies. She always wonder More...
Jul 25, 2011
Sarah
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Jacqueline Wilson is a previous Children's Laureate so I thought I would try reading about one of her most popular characters, Tracy Beaker. This is Tracy's autobiography, in her own words, complete with very funny illustrations. Tracy lives in a care home and has been classed has having behavioural difficulties, something she feels is very unfair. Her best friend no longer talks to her and her Mum never comes to visit. A visit from a writer called Cam starts to bring Tracy out of herself an
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Mar 07, 2011
Caren
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This book was mentioned in Sally Nicholls' "Season of Secrets", which is why I picked it up. Apparently Jacqueline Wilson is a hugely popular author of children's books in Britain, and, according to some of the comments on this book, there is a TV series based on the book's character. Tracy Beaker lives in an orphange and perpetually hopes for her mother to return for her, or , alternatively, to be placed in a good foster home. Her previous two foster home experiences hadn't worked out
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Feb 05, 2012
Manami
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The Story of Tracy Beaker is a story about a girl about Tracy Beaker who lives in a children care because her mother didn't really took great care of her. The kids in the children care got a writing book from the children care owner to write about anything. Tracy loves writing, so she began writing in the writing book about her life in the children care and how she hates it. Tracy hates the children care. She has an enemy named Justine who stole Tracy's best friend in the children care. Justine
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Jul 17, 2009
Vanessa
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Tracy adalah seorang anak yatim piatu yang tinggal di panti asuhan. Dulu dia punya seorang sahabat baik di sana. Tapi kemudian sahabatnya meninggalkannya. Tracy hanya bisa berteman dengan anak kecil ingusan, Peter Ingham. Tapi Tracy bukan anak yang biasa. Dia kuat,tak pernah menangis,selalu menanggapi tantangan dari teman-teman di pantinya. Jika ada teman yang mengganggu atau meledeknya,Tracy selalu menonjok atau paling tidak balas mengata2i mereka. Meski demikian,gw merasa Tracy adalah sosok ya
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Jan 28, 2012
Christine
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I read this a) because it's on the reading list and b) because I needed something very light and fluffy after the epic novel The Stand. You couldn't get more different! I've read it before, though, when I was much younger. I remember loving the questionnaire style opening so much that I wrote down all the questions and answered them myself.
The beauty of this book is that Tracy is really a very cheeky, obnoxious little girl, but brilliantly loveable at the same time. I've followed her t More...
The beauty of this book is that Tracy is really a very cheeky, obnoxious little girl, but brilliantly loveable at the same time. I've followed her t More...
Feb 24, 2011
Katie
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I think this would have to be one of my favourite Jacqueline Wilson books! Tracy Beaker is a really popular TV series it now has another series where Tracy is all grown up and working at the care home in which she lived in. The new TV series is called Tracy Beaker Returns and its just as good as the old TV series.
About this book... I really enjoyed reading it and Tracy answers questions in a very funny way. For example she was asked if she was older she would get a fancy house and a car so More...
About this book... I really enjoyed reading it and Tracy answers questions in a very funny way. For example she was asked if she was older she would get a fancy house and a car so More...
May 23, 2010
Lisa
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I LOVE TRACY BEAKER! I thought this book was so great, and the illustrations were amazing, perfect!!! I love Jacqueline Wilson and this one is one of the best JW books I've read yet. Tracy tells her story herself through a notebook that was given to her by her social worker. She's been in and out of foster care her entire life, and is just getting to the age where she can't quite believe her own stories about why her mom hasn't come to get her (she's a movie star in Hollywood, she's living in
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Apr 17, 2009
Freda
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This is also a childrens book... I just finished reading it to my little sister, it's told through the eyes of a little orphan. Sounds pretty damn stupid right? That's what I thought, it sounded like really cliche, "oh poor orphan girl." But, it was REALLY good, it wasn't a happy corny ending like I was expecting, it wasn't a sob story the orphanage makes us work 40 hours a day and feeds us gruel and all that corny crap. I was pleasently surprised when it turned out to be good, great i
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Sep 25, 2011
Jennifer
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The story of Tracy Beaker is a great story for children to see an insight into what it is liek to be in care, however, this book not only shows the sad time but also the fun experiences tracy and her friends have. Nick Sharratt does a brillant job on the illustartions of drawing Tracy as a cartoon character. Additionlly since this book has been published it has also been made into a television programme. This bok can provide curriculum links to PSHE, Literacy, Scieven, History and Geography. In
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Jun 15, 2011
If you are a person who loves reading funny entertaining books well this is the story for you. It's about a girl called Tracy Beaker who is a bit bratty but she is very intersting in a way.She is an orphan and lives in a childrens home and all she wants is a loving,caring and kind family.It is also very interesting beacause tracy is writing he book in her own words for example how she feels and so on.Tracy is trying to find her mother and describes her mother in every possible way and express h
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Sep 18, 2011
Sophie
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Tracy spent most of his life in orphanages and foster families, imagining all the time that her idealized mother after her return
There is little point make friends with anyone, because I expect to get out of here pretty quickly. When the child arrives home writer, Cam, which conducts research for the article, between her and Tracy tied a thread of understanding. Cam, which does not discourage, intimidate or attack intolerable rage and lies 10-year-olds, has a positive effect on Tracy ...
There is little point make friends with anyone, because I expect to get out of here pretty quickly. When the child arrives home writer, Cam, which conducts research for the article, between her and Tracy tied a thread of understanding. Cam, which does not discourage, intimidate or attack intolerable rage and lies 10-year-olds, has a positive effect on Tracy ...
Jul 11, 2011
Linda
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I don't think the author could have taken on a tougher challenge - writing about a kid in a care home; in the kid's voice. Blimey.
What I found fascinating, from a adult's perspective, is how she was very particular about the voice in Tracey's head being very much like a child, with the distinct self-centredness and fears of a child. Must have taken a few re-writes to find the balance.
I'm wondering a little about other readers who hated her character and her lying. Wh More...
What I found fascinating, from a adult's perspective, is how she was very particular about the voice in Tracey's head being very much like a child, with the distinct self-centredness and fears of a child. Must have taken a few re-writes to find the balance.
I'm wondering a little about other readers who hated her character and her lying. Wh More...
Jan 14, 2010
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Tracy, as she herself tells us, has had a hard time. She's been fostered a number of times but it's never worked out. Now she dreams of her glamorous mother coming to fetch her and spends her time, when she's not quarrelling with the other children, writing her life story. And then one day, Cam, a real writer, visits the home and after a rocky start, she and Tracy become to like each other, could this be her new foster mother?
Mar 29, 2009
Tez
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This is a popular TV series here. I wanted to read one of the books instead of laughing at the show.
I thought it was daring the auther was writing about children in care homes. I believe she writes in a childs voice well.
Tracy puts on a tough girl front but she is really hurting inside about not having parents to love her. I also enjoy reading the mischief she gets up to with the other children in the orphanage.
I thought it was daring the auther was writing about children in care homes. I believe she writes in a childs voice well.
Tracy puts on a tough girl front but she is really hurting inside about not having parents to love her. I also enjoy reading the mischief she gets up to with the other children in the orphanage.
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Dec 11, 2008
Jerry
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Tales of Tracy's life in a group home were ever so amusing, and she was bratty in a way that was also endearing, and every one of the characters in the home is believable and adorable. Also been made into a tv series that I watched once or twice and thought was cute.
I don't remember too much of it, having read it a few years ago, but it's a great children's/preteens book and the illustrations are cute as.
I don't remember too much of it, having read it a few years ago, but it's a great children's/preteens book and the illustrations are cute as.
Aug 01, 2009
whichwaydidshego?
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This wasn't a bad book at all, but I just don't see how it made a list of Britain's 100 favorites which includes amazing classics and ever-so-clever modern classics. Are they that strapped for titles over there? I'd be happy to send them a few volumes (of British authors, mind) that FAR outstrip the likes of this. Anyway, that's my opinion. In and of itself, it's well written and sweet in a naughty-kid sort of way.
Jul 25, 2010
Molly
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This book is brilliant and this makes people understand what is like to be in care and Tracy is a very imaginative girl and has behaviour problems. This story is written in the first person so it makes it easier to read and it makes you feel like you are actually in the book. People should read this story because it is one of the best books i have read. Aged between 9-16
Aug 13, 2011
Suzie
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I thought this book was good and it was funny at times too. I liked the part when Tracy went to Adele's room to put on some make up to try and look really impressive because Cam, the author, is going to come and she'd be wearing fancy clothes but she finds out that Cam is just an ordinary writer.
Nov 23, 2011
Slow Man
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Thumbs up for Tracy. Thumbs up for Jacky. And Thumbs up for the illustrator Nick.
The lady at the library desk went, 'Are you sure you want to take this out, the pages are practically falling off and the book is falling apart?' I went,'that says something about the book,doesn't it?'
The lady at the library desk went, 'Are you sure you want to take this out, the pages are practically falling off and the book is falling apart?' I went,'that says something about the book,doesn't it?'
Aug 07, 2011
Mike
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If I were a ten year old girl, I may think it's great. It does deal with issues that it's good for kids to think about but had it not been in the Big Read Top 100 there's no way I would have read it.
Quick to read and I understand why people who read it as kids still like it. Matilda is a far better read if you want a fiesty female character though.
Quick to read and I understand why people who read it as kids still like it. Matilda is a far better read if you want a fiesty female character though.
Jul 14, 2011
Yzanne
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It was about Tracy beaker in the care home. i thought it was pretty good because at the very begging, it had her life story book. she seems like a very cheeky girl!!! i would recommend it for anyone between 7-9.
Apr 10, 2011
Dizzy
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racy is a fun, feisty loving character, She writes in her life book about everything thing that goes on in the dumping ground (DG) Tracy longs to be fostered well until her mum comes to pick her up from Hollywood.
Aug 20, 2010
Sophie
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Wilson always managed to tackle pressing and awkward scenarios really well while maintaining appeal to kids and here is a great example. Great book! Great TV Series, which I still do watch from time to time.
Nov 28, 2010
Debbie (Readerbuzz)
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And The Story of Tracy Beaker was absolutely delightful. A book of diary entries written by a young girl in foster care. Could have been sad (and was, at times) but was also hilarious and true.
Apr 27, 2011
Stacy
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Couldn't manage to read it. I suffered to get to the half and it did not became any better.
What is the point of writing about self-centric, selfish child who lies all the time and cannot see anything good around? Who refuses everything and everyone who wants to help her?
It actually it minus 1 star, only waste of paper to print something like this.
Half-read in great pain: 03.04.2011.
What is the point of writing about self-centric, selfish child who lies all the time and cannot see anything good around? Who refuses everything and everyone who wants to help her?
It actually it minus 1 star, only waste of paper to print something like this.
Half-read in great pain: 03.04.2011.
Sep 23, 2010
Ztran17
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This book is about Tracy and finding her mother because her mother left her in a foster home. But pretty soon she met the right person to be her foster parent.
Dec 22, 2011
Niratisaya
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Buku anak2 sih, tapi menyenangkan juga membacanya. Jadi paham, bukan sekedar mengalami, tentang masa kanak2 dan pemikiran para manusia kecil itu.
