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The Lottie Project - Review

 The Lottie Project - Review

The Lottie Project - Wikipedia

Hi all, it’s Neassa and today I’m going to be reviewing the book that I just finished, The Lottie Project. I have read this book multiple times before, at various ages, starting with eight, and always enjoy it and pick up on a few more jokes that I wouldn’t have noticed the previous times.


What is this book about?

This book is about a girl called Charlie Enright who gets a strict new teach, called Ms. Beckworth, who sets them a Victorian project at the beginning of the term. Boring, right? Well that’s what Charlie thinks anyway.


Until she starts reading about servants. They were young girls like her! Charlie is hooked immediately, and begins writing a diary from the perspective of a Victorian Nursery maid, Lottie, who has been sent away from her home to make money.


From this point on in the book, it was a chapter about Charlie followed by a few pages about Lottie, and then back to Charlie. The book follows the two girls as they go through family struggles, money problems and more.

Did you enjoy this book?

I really enjoyed this book, as I always do, because it is very unique and interesting, as I have never read a book that follows two people who live in two completely different eras! A really good book with really good, interesting characters.


What genre(s) is it in?

I would say that it is a little bit historical fiction, but mostly just plain fiction. Historical fiction because of the correct Victorian facts that are what Lottie’s story is based on, and fiction because it didn’t happen.

Flaws

This book has one flaw. It’s almost the exact same as the rest of Jacqueline Wilson's books. In all of them, there is either only one parent in the family, or the parents are always fighting. At some point in almost all of her books one of the parents has a boyfriend or girlfriend that the child doesn’t like and the child always has problems in school, followed by a break down.


So that’s my review of The Lottie Project. As always, I would recommend this book to anyone between the ages of 8 and 12. 


Happy Reading

The Book Corner

Neassa

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