Starring Tracy Beaker
Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Illustrator: Nick Sharratt
Book 3 in the Tracy Beaker series
Pages: 308
Published: 2006
Age: 8+
Tracy Beaker is back and she’s just desperate for a role in her school play, A Christmas Carol and for one extremely worrying moment, the irrepressible Tracy thinks she might not even get to play one of the unnamed street urchins. But then she is cast in the main role. Can she manage to act grumpy, difficult and sulky enough to play Ebeneezer Scrooge? Well, she does have a bit of help on that front from Justine Pain-In-The-Bum Littlewood.
This hilarious and heartbreaking new story from the bestselling, award-winning, Jacqueline Wilson, follows her most popular character through ups and downs, laughs and tears.
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.