Review: The Eleventh Orphan

Name: Hannah

School: Head of Muir Primary

Occupation: Young person

Age: 11

Book: The Eleventh Orphan

Rating: 10

Review:
The Eleventh Orphan is a book set in 1890. It is based on a girl called Elfie. Elfie is an orphan in London, her mother died when she was a very young age and Elfie went to an orphanage. She didn’t like the orphanage so she ran away and lived under a bridge with other orphans, until Constable O’Dowd came and found her and took her to The Pig and Whistle. The Pig and Whistle is a pub in Stoke Newington. Ma and Pa Bigsby are the people who own and run it, they normally only have 10 orphans at a time but Ma couldn’t turn Elfie down. Elfie settles in to the Pig and Whistle and becomes very attached to it and everyone inside it. I think that The Eleventh Orphan is a very good book. As soon as you start reading it you cannot stop. It has great characters and some of their names are very funny, like Ethelbert, Trelawney and Algernon. It is an excellent book with lots of different emotions like I felt happy when Ma and Pa Bigsby took Elfie in and I was scared when she was locked in the bedroom at the Duguid’s house. My favourite part of the book was when Elfie met her father, Alfred Trelawney, and he gave her a hug goodbye. It was my favourite part because I thought it was really nice that he did that because Elfie had been nervous the whole time she was there and she hadn’t known if he liked her but when he hugged her it put her mind at piece a bit. My least favourite part is when Elfie is unlocking the big wooden door at the Duguid’s house and Mr. Duguid grabs the back of her dress but she gets free and just runs for her life. It is my least favourite part because even though it thought it was a very exciting part of the book, when I was reading it my heart was pounding because I didn’t know if she would get away. I like the Eleventh Orphan because it shows you how Elfie found her father out of a bag of her mother’s things with hardly any information. I am definitely going to vote for The Eleventh orphan and I think it should win because it is one of the best books I have ever read and I think it is full of excitement and I like how at the end when Elfie’s father proposes that she comes to live with him, it doesn’t have the obvious ending.