Title: Cookie
Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Genre: Fiction
Days to read: Three
Beauty Cookson is anything but beautiful and is tired of being teased about her name. Her father is forever fussing about dirty shoes in the house or Beauty using paints or gel pens and Beauty and her mum are sick of it. On Beauty’s birthday, her dad insists that she invites everyone in her class, but that means inviting Skye, the meanest girl in the school, as well and Beauty knows that Skye will be horrible. Rhona, the one girl in the class that’s nice to Beauty, gives her a rabbit as a present, but Beauty’s dad is furious! When they all get back from the theatre, Beauty goes out to the back yard to check on her rabbit and finds that it has been murdered. Of course, Beauty and her mum know exactly who is to blame and they move out with absolutely nowhere to go…
I really liked this book because it’s about a real-life situation and Jacqueline Wilson wrote it well. I especially liked the way Beauty’s emotions are portrayed. The one thing that I didn’t like about this book was that it was a bit flowery at times. I would rate this book 9/10 because it was a really good story.
My favourite character was Beauty because she was really brave when her dad was being so mean or when she was being teased at school. My least favourite character was Beauty’s dad because he was manipulative and always belittled Beauty and her mum; even hitting them.
Overall, I thought this book was a really good read; once I picked it up, I couldn’t put it down!
By Erin!
You did a great book review! I liked the way you used a wide vocabulary with words like “manipulative” and “belittled.” You gave a short but effective summary, and it gave a really good perspective of the story.
This sounds like a very interesting book. I will try and read it. Your book review was really awesome