The Dare Game
Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Illustrator: Nick Sharratt
Book 2 in the Tracy Beaker series
Pages: 246
Published: 2000
Age: 8+
I'm Tracy Beaker, the great inventor of extremely outrageous dares – and I dare you to read a more brilliant story than this!
I've bought a big fat purple notebook for writing down all my mega-manic ultra-scary stories in. But especially for my own story. Of how my foster-mum, Cam, has turned out to be a real meanie. No designer clothes, when I really need them. A pokey flat, and a horrible new school. No wonder I bunk off . . . Still, it will have to do until my real mum comes and gets me. And until then, no-one is going to be better at the Dare Game than Tracy Beaker!
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.