The Story of Tracy Beaker (I)

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Title: The Story of Tracy Beaker

Author: Jacqueline Wilson

Transworld Publishers Ltd.

London, 1991

(Also published in Australia, New Zealand and Canada)

126 pages.

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This is the story of Tracy Beaker, a ten year old girl who lives in a Children´s Home and longs to be fostered.

I´ve found this book in a library, in the "Junior Section"; that is to say, "Literature for young people", but I´ve found this story worth reading at any age.

This is the symmary which can be read in the cover of the book:

I´m Tracy Beaker. This is a book all about me. I´d read it if I were you. It´s the most incredible dynamic heart-rending story. Honest. And I bet some great movie magnate spots it and turns it into a film and I´ll get to be a star. (Just like my mum). I suppose I´d better let Peter have a small part in my film. But not Louise or Justine. No way! Cam can write the script if she likes. Cam is... But if you want to know who she is you´d better read this book. There´s some funny bits and some rude bits and some sad bits and I think it´s the best book ever. But then I would do, seeing as I helped write it.

About the author:

Jacqueline Wilson was born in Somerset. She began her working life at a publishing company, then spent two years working as a magazine jurnalist before turning her hand very successfully to a career as a full-time author. She has written a number of books for children, as well as a series of crime novels and several plays which have been broadcast on Radio 4; she has also run classes for children in creative writing. An avid reader herself, Jacqueline has a personal collection of more than 10,000 books!

Married to a Chief Superintendet in the Metropolitan Police, she lives in Surrey and has one grown-up daughter.