The Story of Tracy Beaker
Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Illustrator: Nick Sharratt
Book 1 in the Tracy Beaker series
Pages: 160
Published: 1991
Age: 8+
Introducing Tracy Beaker, 10-year-old girl-wonder and the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress . . . sort of.
Tracy Beaker’s not exactly sure what her mother does, because Tracy has been in foster care for as long as she can remember. She has a picture of her mother, who’s pretty enough to be in movies, so maybe she is. And maybe one day Tracy’s mother will show up and reclaim her long-lost daughter, and together they’ll have fabulous adventures. Then again, maybe she won’t.
In the meantime, Tracy’s doing everything she can to take care of herself–even though she has to share her birthday cake with silly Petey Ingham just because they have the same birthday . . . and even though the other girls she lives with are mean and nasty and rude and horrible. Mostly. Then a journalist shows up to write a story about their orphanage, and she and Tracy strike up a special friendship.
About the Tracy Beaker Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Story of Tracy Beaker(1991)
- 2.The Dare Game(2000)
- 3.Starring Tracy Beaker(2006)
- 4.My Mum Tracy Beaker(2018)
- 5.We Are the Beaker Girls(2019)
- +Ask Tracy Beaker and Friends(2010)
- +Tracy Beaker's Thumping Heart(2009)
Reading age: 8+ years
This series should be read in order.
Tracy is ten years old. She lives in a Children's Home but would like a real home one day, with a real family. Meet Tracy, follow her story and share her hopes for the future in this beautifully observed, touching and often very funny tale, all told in Tracy's own words.
In a series of stories written with humor and sensitivity, Tracy emerges as a spirited girl who’s not quite as tough as she lets everybody think she is. With lively illustrations by Nick Sharratt, the Tracy Beaker books are every bit as funny and engaging as The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series they later inspired.