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The Suitcase Kid

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The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson, and Nick Sharratt

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By Jacqueline Wilson, and and, Nick Sharratt

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232 reviews

When my parents split up they didn’t know what to do with me… My family always lived at Mulberry Cottage. Mum, Dad, me – and Radish, my Sylvanian rabbit. But now Mum lives with Bill the Baboon and his three kids. Dad lives with Carrie and her twins. And where do I live?

Reviews

12 Jul 2025

It shows how a little girl can actually feel.

08 Jul 2025

this is my favourite book ever but its a bit emotional

01 Jan 2025

It was a very good, entertaining book. I especially liked the little bunny Radish.

12 Nov 2024

I liked the suitcase kid

03 Sep 2024

Really good story

14 Aug 2024

this book made me feel empathetic towards the main character and how lucky i am for my family

09 Aug 2024

I liked hearing about having divorced parents and hearing about step sisters and brothers some of them nice and some not so nice.

07 Aug 2024

I really enjoyed reading it

18 Jun 2024

I like the suitcase kid because it is very relatable,

28 Sep 2023

MairiG

This is my first ever Jacqueline Wilson book. I read it for one of the class teachers who wanted a lighter book for the end of term. I know that many JW books are centred around real life issues and, because of this, I’ve always steered clear of them. I was surprised how much I liked it. I liked the character of Andy and the A - Z chapter headings. It’s a short, little book but very readable. 🧳

18 Aug 2023

I would recommend it to children aged 8-12.It was a very good book and I enjoyed it thoroughly. My favourite character was Andy.

18 Aug 2023

I feel like it was quite samey and I found it a bit boring.

16 Aug 2023

This is a really good book that I enjoyed. My favourite part was when Andrea held Zoe for the first time. This is because she refused then when she held her she knew they would be besties.

15 Aug 2023

I really enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to someone else.

13 Aug 2023

I love this book it is so good

10 Aug 2023

I really like the happy bit in the story where Andy finds her toy bunny in the mulberry tree

03 Aug 2023

I like this book because the girl always loves to go on trips and loves packing her suitcase

01 Aug 2023

I’m not sure if I really like this, but you’re not because it’s quite different from what I like to

31 Jul 2023

This book was very sad :(
Andrea sometimes has to live with her dad and sometimes with her mum. I feel sorry for her but the author made it very enjoyable to read using the alphabets. This book is really good for all children to read.

31 Jul 2023

This book is about a girl named Andy who used to live in Mulberry Cottage when her parent were still married. Then her parents divorced and married different people. Andy's mom married Bill and Andy's dad married Carrie and they both got children. So Andy has many step brothers and step sisters and then Andy kept getting told of in school because she could hardly concentrate and she has a toy rabbit called radish and she has to keep on changing to mom house one week to dad house next week. Then Andy found this garden that had a Mulberry tree like the one in Mulberry Cottage and so she climbed over the fence and went to the garden and ate the mulberries but one day she dropped her toy rabbit called radish down the hole of the tree and at night she went out to get it and the people who lived inside the house found her and they were old people and they became freinds and then her parents found her and they went inside the old people house and ate and Andy got her radish back and then after on Christmas the old couple got Andy a present.

28 Jul 2023

I would recommend this book as it is quite an interesting book where Andy's pet, Radish gets lost inside a hole. This is where Andy decides to go out in the middle of the night to find Radish and where the adventurous part begins. I like this book as it is entertaining and fun. My favourite characters are Radish and Andy.

24 Jul 2023

I think that is a bit of a stretch for Andy , because she has no family or friends (her friend has started playing with someone else)and even worse she has no home she lives in a suitcase!But on the other hand she also does get 5 other siblings.She also has her favourite toy radish. So I give it a 5 star rating.

19 Jul 2023

Amazing

19 Jul 2023

A girl who dosen’t have a home

18 Jul 2023

This is a really nice fiction book all about Andrea/Andy. Her parents have been divorced but one week she is at her dads house and one week at her mums. I think this book should be aged 5-12.

10 Jul 2023

I liked his book because it showed Andrea’s emotions well. My favourite character is Katie because she is sly and mischievous. Also, she called Andrea ‘Andy-pandy’. I would recommend this for people who are big fans of Jacqueline Wilson.

20 Jun 2023

This is one of my favourites

11 Feb 2023

Loved it because I like the person who wrote the book and I like Andy Pandy

13 Dec 2022

It shows the reality of how people with divorced parents have to live

26 Nov 2022

I thought this was a very diary-based book on divorce.
I liked Andy/Andrea because she shows what she is going through and always treats it like a joke.
I would recommend this book to anybody! :) :)

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