The Lottie Project

Description

Author: Wilson, Jacqueline

Interest age: from c 9 years

Published on 9 October 2008 by Penguin Random House Children’s UK (Yearling (imprint of Random House Children’s Books) in the United States.

Paperback | 224 pages, B+W illustrations t/o
194 x 132 x 13 | 164g

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 . . .