Kizzy is a little girl, half-gypsy who lives in a wagon with her great, great, great grand-mother (gran) and her horse, Joe, in Admiral Twiss's orchard. But when Kizzy's gran dies, can the old Admiral Twiss and his male servants look after the poor little girl? And will the happiness between Kizzy and Joe survive?
I REALLY enjoyed this book! I liked the characters too. My favourite one is Admiral Twiss because he has a kind heart and he's always trying to help Kizzy, but there were some girls who were horrible: they kept bullying Kizzy.
The story is well-written. The people and the places were so well described that the story really came to life. I could imagine myself as Kizzy (but when someone else read it to me I couldn't feel that).
This book is different because Kizzy doesn't have the same kind of problems as other girls in stories. The gypsy life that she is fighting to keep seems magical (living in a wagon, cooking outside) but trying to mix with the other girls at school isn't easy.
Even though I read this book a while ago, Kizzy keeps coming back in my mind. (My mum read it 30 years ago and she says Kizzy is still in her mind!) Go on, read it!
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