Book review for 'Hetty Feather'

I really enjoyed  reading this book because it was funny and it was like  a mystery. it was like a mystery because the character Hetty feather was looking for her mother as she was abandoned as a baby. She was left at the Foundling Hospital until someone adpoted her. Hetty was adopted, with another baby called Gideon, by a really kind lady, who always adopts children. Hetty's foster mum and dad had some other children. Hetty's foster mum and dad had some other children with them called Rosie, Elizabeth, Saul but Hetty really liked Jem because he was kind to her when she was first adopted. When hetty was 5, Jem said to her that when she was old enough to leave the Foundling Hospital, he was going to come and find her and then marry her. Further in the book, Hetty had to go back to the Foundling Hospital (she was 5.) She REALLY hated it there, not just because she couldn't see her brother Gideon, she also got bullied as she had red hair and she was the littlest girl there. Hetty really wanted to see her brother Gideon but girl and boys were forbidden to see each other, she dressed up as a boy and went to see him while the boys were having their playtime. The nurses/staff at the hospital were really mean because one of the teachers hit Hetty's best friend Polly on the hand with a whiteboard rubber, Hetty stuck up for her and said to the teacher that she was mean and evil (many more things) then the teacher took Hetty to the headmistress, she got really told off and had to be in a prison like room for 24 hours for her punishment. When a flu went round the hospital, including Hetty, many people got sick. When Hetty's brother and friend caught it, they sadly died. When the hospital got invited to ho to the Queen's Jubilee, where they were going to meet the lady herself, Hetty ran away to go find her mother, but she didn't find her. In the end hetty was living on the streets and was begging for money. A 14 year old girl called Sissy started to look after her. But when they had lunch with a writer, she took her back to the hospital. In the end, one of the really kind nurses, Ida, was Hetty's mother but they couldn't say anything, it had to be a secret!


I give this book 10/10! I can't wait to read the second book, Sapphire Battersea!