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Hetty Feather

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Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson

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By Jacqueline Wilson

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It’s London, 1876 and Hetty Feather is just a tiny baby when her mother leaves her at the Foundling Hospital. The Hospital cares for abandoned children – but Hetty must first live with a foster family until she is big enough to go to school. Life in the countryside is hard but with her ‘brothers’ Jem and Gideon, she plays imaginary games.

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20 Mar 2024

love this
totally amazing

23 Jan 2024

I liked reading this because I watched the series in cbbc

27 Dec 2023

This is so good!

22 Dec 2023

This book is about a young foundling child who is brought up in a kind foster home. In the foundling hospital, they burn her Sunday best clothes shave her hair, and rash her rag baby it's torture for her in the foundling hospital.

22 Dec 2023

It was an amazing book .I liked how it was set in the Victorian times .It was so interesting . I would highly recommend this very interesting book .Jacqueline Wilson wrote it so realistically that I could imagine I was in the moment .

19 Dec 2023

I really liked how Hetty really wanted to go away from Sheila, Matron. The book made me want to run free.

11 Nov 2023

great tension, heart-breaking

06 Sep 2023

This book was not as exciting as the other ones. Some parts I didn’t like but it was good.

04 Sep 2023

I really liked Hetty Feather because she always managed to defend herself from the matron and the bullies and I really like her adventurous spirit

30 Aug 2023

A realy good book a must read

29 Aug 2023

Quite a sad book in places, but really enjoyed reading it.

25 Aug 2023

Rude funny Hetty’s long search to find her mum

18 Aug 2023

I enjoyed this so much!

15 Aug 2023

This book is ace. I cannot believe how much it just sucked me in. I felt I was hetty/sapphire herself. Wandering the streets, locked in the attic every step hetty was with me. I would defo reccomend this book to someone else. Jacqueline Wilson you have outdone yourself again

01 Aug 2023

A momentarily story

25 Jul 2023

Amazing
Spectacular
Perfect
read it
funny
fun
Just read it

24 Jul 2023

Hetty Feather is a great tale, but also very sad.An especially sad part is when she leaves her foster brother Jem to go back to the foundling hospital.

23 Jul 2023

Love it!

04 Jul 2023

It was very good and intresting.It was fictional and my favorite character was Ida because she never gave up on her child.I would highly recommend this to every one.

24 Jun 2023

It was an amazing book! I love it!

18 Jun 2023

I love this book! I love Hetty Feather and her foster brother Jem. I definitely recommend this book to older readers.

27 Dec 2022

Great

03 Dec 2022

Amazing

30 Sep 2022

It was very good. I liked Nurse Winterson and Jem. I would recommend this book to others.

01 Sep 2022

It was a fantastic book

31 Aug 2022

I haven't read very much of Jacqueline Wilson's work at all. However, this book made me cry. It has been quite well researched and gives just enough period detail.
I had real empathy for the characters, especially Hetty and the cartoonish cover illustrations make the characters personalities come to life in a more three-dimensional way somehow.
I was particularly fond of the black and white illustrations at the head of each chapter. They give the reader a glimpse into what each chapter is about, but it doesn't become entirely clear until after you've finished the chapter. They are 'teasers' really, so I found myself flicking back to look at the pictures again to make sense of the mystery meaning in each.
There are two more books in this trilogy, I can't wait to read them.

31 Aug 2022

This book was really funny and interesting. It taught me some history in the late 1800's. Hetty Feather was my favourite character because she is very mischievous and always cared for her younger brother, Gideon. I would recommend this book to people who love history and action tales.

24 Aug 2022

This book is full of adventure and plot twists if you like adventure you will like this book

22 Aug 2022

This book is about the life of Hetty Feather. When Hetty was born her mother was very poor and Hetty was always sick so she had no choice but to drop Hetty at an orphanage. After Hetty arrived she got adopted by a huge family. But when she was at the age of five she had to go back to the orphanage.When she returned to the orphanage life was miserable for her and one day she thought of escaping the orphanage and she did it, she escaped for two days but a writer called Mrs Sarah took her back to the orphanage and when she entered the cafeteria one of the kitchen staff fainted and was rushed to her room. Hetty came to, as she got closer the kitchen staff hugged her and said that she was Hetty's real mother.

My favourite character is Hetty because she never gave up.
I would recommend this book to children age 8+

19 Aug 2022

Good

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