Cliffhanger - Jacqueline Wilson

This book is by Jacqueline Wilson and it is very funny. It’s all about a boy called Tim. Tim, a nine year old boy, is sent (very reluctantly) to adventure camp. He is brilliant in school at just about every subject except sport. Tim is useless at sports, but his dad wants him to get involved so that’s why he makes him go. At the adventure camp, there are four teams, all named after cats. The Tigers, Lions, Panthers, and Cheetahs. Tim ...
...sort of boy, Biscuits, who always eats food, Kelly, Laura, and Lesley.... girls!!! After the first day, Biscuits is Tim’s best friend, and most of the Tigers want to be different cats. Kelly wants to be a Cheetah so she can cheat. Biscuits wants to be a Lion so he can lie, and Tim wants to be a Panther so he can make panting noises. Apart from having a new friend, Tim is not happy at all. He has to play Triangles, a game a bit like Rounders, ...

Iggglybufff 01.06.2001 · Read full review
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This Jacquline Wilson book is one of her funniest! It is about a 9 year old boy, called Tim, who has been sent to an adventure camp for the week. Tim hates sports so he dreading it anyway. Luckily his new friend Biscuits isn't very interested either! The adventure camp and Tim get off to a bad start! The children are divided up into different teams, all of which are named after wild cats. These teams are The Tigers, Panthers, Cheatahs and The Lions. ...
...is in there too, as well Giles a ' i'm-the-best-at-everything' boy, Kelly a very lively and bouncy girl and Lesley and Laura, two girls who are the best of friends. After a while Biscuits and Tim are the best of friends and they have called themselves Super - Tim and Biscuits Boy! Although Tim has a new friend he still hates the camp. On the second day he has to go Absdeiling and gets stuck! Luckily he is OK. Tim sends loads of postcards to his ...

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Jacqueline Wilson's Cliffhanger is a great novel. However, this makes for a more confusing read than the normal Jacqueline Wilson stories. I found there were so many characters involved in this read and I became confused. When I was just getting used to the fact that there was only Mum, Dad and Tim, Several other characters appeared in the storyline which added greatly to my confusion. Apart from this critisism, All in all the book was a good read, ...
...what was actually going on. In connection to the main character Tim, my view is that there are fairly enormous gender issues surrounding this little boy with regards as to how his mum and dad parent him. My understanding of this is that although mum is happy initially to have Tim a mummy's boy, and portrays relative conflict with dad in this issue, It becomes apparent throughout the storyline that eventually mum realises the importance of dads role ...

Deniisee_x 02.07.2007 (04.07.2007) · Read full review
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