Scarlett

by Cathy Cassidy

Book Overview

Scarlett's in trouble at school. Again. With black fingernails and dyed ketchup-red hair, she's not your average twelve-year-old Londoner. So her mum sick of trying to get her into "another" school ships Scarlett to her father's cottage in Ireland. Having to learn Gaelic in a one-room schoolhouse and enduring a new stepmum and younger stepsister is just too much. Scarlett wants to leave until she meets Kian. He seems too good to be true with his dark,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670060682
• ISBN13: 9780670060689
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Scarlett by Cathy Cassidy

This book is definitly in my top 10! Cathy sues amazing language, and gets the emotion of it across really well. I would definitly recommend it to anyone (most probably moe appealing to girls) from the age of 9 or over. Really captivating, like any other Cahy Cassidy book, once picked up , it can't be put down! Another Cassidy book that I cna recommend to anyone who is reading/read Scarlett is Indigo Blue. 5+* !

page turner!

scarlett is a definite page turner as preteen scarlett - who is constantly causing trouble - is sent off to live with her dad who left her and her mum years ago.when scarlett sees her dads old morris traveler and the twee cottage he lives in with his wife and daughter she is apalled.and then she meets mysterious and gorgeous local boy kian. can he solve her problems?

Can dreams come true? Great book! By Holly Smith

Scarlett is a girl with a very short temper. And after her parents split up her dad goes off with Clare and move to Ireland with daughter, Holly, Scarlett's dreams are ruined, and she gets through five schools in two years and gets he tongue pierced, and dies her hair ketchup red. Her mother starts to worry, and by the end of the day, she decides Scarlett has to go and live with her Dad, in Ireland. This - Scarlett thinks - was a big mistake. When she arrives in Ireland and sees her dad in the ancient car she decides this is going to be the worst time of her life. When little Holly starts sticking up to her, and tries to be her friend, Scarlett is just plain mean. When she gets to the little cottage that Her Dad lives at and sees Clare for the first time she realizes Clare is pregnant. She knows she is going to hate it. When she starts school, she finds she is no longer in Secondary school, but back in Primary. With only two other children her age. She bunks of school hoping to find the airport and get home. Even though she is wearing bunky sandals which hurt her feet, she doesn't even know how far the airport is. Let alone how to get there. As she is walking she meets a boy on a horse called Kian, they become best friends and Scarlett becomes a different person, and her Irish family decide that she is going to be home schooled. When one day her stepsister, Holly wants her nose pierced, Scarlett tries to warn her it hurts but Holly insists. She pirces and Holly moved and Scarlett acciedenly pierces her lip. Nobody can trust her anymore can they? When Dad and Holly go out for the day to sell soap, Scarlett is left with Clare. While Clare is sewing a blanket for the baby Scarlett wants some of her clothes to be involved in the blanket, and Clare shows her some clothes from when she was very little that her Dad had kept. In the loft, as they are leaving the loft with three pretty little dresses, Clare slips and falls down the stairs, when Clare starts to have the baby, what is Scarlett going to do? A edge of your seat story, brilliant, one of my favourites. A must read. Thankyou. More girlz book reviews on my website: [...]

Cassidy at her Best

Scarlett is not your typical preteen. With her hair dyed a vibrant red, her school uniform altered to fit her personality and annoy the teachers, and her tongue even peirced, Scarlett is out in search of trouble. Her mother is a proper Londoner who, after Scarlett's many encounters with the school principal, sends her away to Ireland to live with her father, his wife Clare, and Clare's daughter Holly. Scarlett refuses to even try to enjoy herself away from the bustling of the city and the catty schoolchildren of London. But things have a turnaround when Scarlett meets Kian and Midnight, and learns of the mystique of mint and an Irish forest. Although some scenes are somewhat repetitive, "Scarlett" is very true, but also with its magic. Unlike some other books for young readers, Cassidy does not fall to her knees and beg her readers to like Scarlett and does not force Scarlett too hard to be unique. Cassidy does not throw a pity party for Scarlett, nor does she neglect the fact Scarlett is different. My fondness of young, reckless, rebellious Scarlett happened naturally, just as my sympathy towards her family life. "Scarlett" is an amazing read. Cathy Cassidy is also the author of "Dizzy", "Indigo Blue", "Driftwood" (not released in U.S.), and soon-to-be "Sundae Girl." Give Scarlett a shot. She'll win your heart!