The Good Turn
By Sharna Jackson (Puffin)
Review by Imani
After seeing this book’s front cover, I normally do not really like books this long and this mysterious, I like straight-forward books. But this book may have changed my opinion about mystery books. The history of time this was written in is the present, so right now, but once it did look into the past. I loved Josephine’s consistent attitude. She kept going, no matter if her friends and everyone else said to stop. One of the characters that had a bad outlook to me and that was Mr Kirklees. Mr Kirklees WAS a nice, old man that Josephine and her friends (for the Copsey's) Margot and Wesley, cleaned his garden for him since he was unable to. He also had a dog named Brian, who loves Wesley, (also the only boy in the Copsey’s since well Bobby is there, but it did not show Bobby becoming an official Copsey, so I am going to say he is not a Copsey). Unfortunately, I did not really learn anything new about the past, but it does show a factory that two main characters, Felix and Audrey, stayed in that was set in the past. The plot was SO thought-provoking, so basically as I told you, Felix and Audrey were staying in that very old factory, yeah so, they were meant to be chucked out and sent back to their home country, but they did not want to, and that is when Mr Kirklees became bad. Later, Josephine found out that Richard Kirklees (Mr Kirklees) was the CEO of Chicane Cars (the factory’s name), so he went and chucked Felix and Audrey out and demolished the whole factory and after telling the whole world that there were only a few rats scrambling in the factory, nothing else. So, he obviously called Felix and Audrey rats. Later on in the story, (at the end), it tells you that Mr Kirklees was chucked out of Luton and into Caymans (his home island), which I think he really deserved. What really stands out for me in this book, is the fact that the children doing all of this, handling this problem, without adult help, is my age, about 10 or 11. I would definitely recommend this book to other pupils in my class since I think that this book really leaves you hanging at the end of some chapters. I did not learn any new words, and if I did, I learnt all the meanings to them from a dictionary. I do not dislike a single thing about this book.