The Horn Book Guide

INTERMEDIATE FICTION

Wilson, Jacqueline

The Lottie Project

214 pp. | Delacorte | October, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-385-32718-8 $$15.95

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Nick Sharratt. For a school project on the Victorians, eleven-year-old Charlie creates a diary written by Lottie, her nineteenth-century alter ego. Chapters alternate between Charlie's chatty, opinionated narrative about school, home, and her mother's boyfriend, and domestic servant Lottie's earnest journal entries, which offer a different perspective on Charlie's problems. This is a gentle endorsement for using one's imagination to work through change.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1999