Title
Author
The Lottery Rose
Irene Hunt
Reviewer
Genre
Rating
Realistic Fiction
9
Novel Review:
How would it feel if you were abused all your life by your mother and her boyfriend and then sent to an all boys’ school where you
don’t know anybody? This is what Georgie Burgess; the main character in The Lottery Rose has to deal with. Read this book and get
into Irene Hunts The Lottery Rose.
The main character in this book is a 7-year-old boy named Georgie Burgess. He has lived with his mom and her boyfriend Steve for
awhile. Every day that Steve is over their house he abuses Georgie. One day Georgie won a rose bush in a market and he was very
happy so he took it home. When he got home Steve was there and he hurt Georgie really badly. Fortunately the neighbors heard and
called the police. Then, Georgie was taken to an all boys’ school where he could be safe, but he didn’t know anybody.
At the all boys school Georgie meets a lot of new people. He also learns to forgive and forget because he wanted to plant his rose in
Mrs. Harpers garden but she wouldn’t let him so he forgave her and forgot about it. I think Georgie changed throughout the story
because at first he was a depressed little boy and at the end of the story he becomes happy and joyful.
The Lottery Rose is classified as one of the best books I have every read. It is filled with all different type of moods like upsetting and
unfortunate to joyful and touching. I think the Author Irene Hunt is very talented and I hope that she keeps writing more of these
types of stories.