Girl Underground

Hi! This is kind of a follow up book to Boy Overboard. If you have not already read that post, l recommend you do. I hope you enjoy this book review on Girl Underground!

Author- Morris Gleitzman
Genre- Fiction, Adventure
Theme- Be brave- l will explain why later in the post
Target audience- 10+ l will explain why later in the post

I will explain why l chose be brave for the theme. I chose be brave because the security guards kept shouting at BiBi and Jamal's father making him sad but they still wanted to get him out.

I will now explain why l chose 10+ for the target audience. I chose 10+ for the target audience because the backstories to the characters are quite complex and confusing.

Now the main character Bridget (from first person point of view), has a criminal family. Though her brother is in jail they only do it because Bridgets family (mostly her Dad and brother) do not see why they should not do it but the only reason that her Dad is a "criminal" is because they sell things from trucks that tipped out and sell them. Her brother (Gavin) is in Jail because he stole something so people didn't laugh behind their dad (Leonard)'s back. That is how Bridget ended up in boarding school where she met Menzies.

This book is about Bridget getting an education that her parents would never have gotten. It is quite obvious that Bridgets parents care about her because her parents cancelled something that they really wanted to get done. While Bridget is at her 'top notch' school a boy tries to read Gavins letter but of course Gavin is in Jail, so Menzies instead switches the letters around with a letter from a school project which Menzies thinks is really important because its about kids (Jamal and BiBi), from boy overboard stuck in a detention centre when they did nothing. That is when the problem begins.

Now that was a long paragraph!

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars ⛦ because it took quite a long time to get introduced into the problem and Jamal and BiBi. Sometimes you want to get into the problem, the tension and the excitement. Though once I did reach the excitement, Girl Underground was really interesting.

The question of the blog is what would you change your last name to? I chose this question because Bridgets family changed their last name from Podger to White. I would change my last name to Lena because to me any name that starts with 'L' is graceful and clever sounding.

I hope you enjoy this book review on Girl Underground! Keep on the lookout for new posts. Love- bookworm blog