Goggle-Eyes

The book opens with a dramatic scene. A girl charges into a classroom tears streaming down her face. She is uncharacteristically rude to her teacher and then emotionally runs out of her classroom. The main protagonist Kitty is sent after her and not knowing why she is chosen she reluctant follows the other girl to the locker room. Its from there that the scene is set for Kitty to tell her story to her upset classmate. It transpires that the other girl Helly, has a divorced mother with a new man in her life that she hates. Kitty then realises why she was chosen and then proceeds to tell her story of " Goggle Eyes". The novel is a funny subtle exploration of the pain of adjusting to divorce and then having the new balance of mother and children upset with a new and possibly permanent man in the family. It is about the gradual maturity of the main character learning to live with and reluctantly like a man who is the exact opposite of her, temperamentally, politically and in many other ways and realising that such a situation can work. It is a charming, sometimes hilarious story with well developed characters and some political content as well. Can be enjoyed by adults as well as teenagers.

Goggle-eyes is a great book if your having problems with your life.It is not only a book but it tells you a story that is so true sometimes.I think it's great and i love the writer Anne Fine!

My War with Goggle-Eyes was about a girl named Helen who has problems with her mom's boyfreiend and her mom won't even listen to her! So she goes and finds a friend who has the same problem as herself.The girl's name is Kitty.So Kitty finds out the problem and tells Helen what she did to her mom's boyfreind.They both end up making peace with their mom's boyfreind's. My opinion of this book was at the beginning I wish they would have had more of a beginning that kids or anyone could understand. This book was like The Kids at the End of the Hall.But it was different because the hole chapter was based on one kid for the thing. By Alex Harvey PG - 13

I saw the BBC television adaptation of Goggle-Eyes a few years ago and I remember liking it too. It featured Honeysuckle Weeks, who is currently starring in about 12 children's TV programmes, according to my little sister that is. The story revolves around Kitty and her relationships with her best friend Helen , and Gerald the new boyfriend of her mother. In the first chapter we find out that Helen is upset by the troubles in her home life, and her new father figure. This is Kitty's prompt to tell Helen about her relationship with her mother's boyfriend Gerald, or Goggle-Eyes as she affectionately nicknames him. We witness the transformation of Kitty's relationship with Goggle-Eyes, from one of resentment and even hatred, through apathy, to an eventually accepting him not wanting him to leave. Whether Goggle-Eyes exists or is just a vehicle for Kitty to reassure her friend is open to interpretation. The language of the book is light-hearted, and enjoyable, which goes along way to diffusing the blow of the serious subject matter. The experience of having a new parent, and thus loosing an old one, has never happened to me so I can't relate to it. Although sadly I'm sure there are lots who can. What I can relate to however is the little things of childhood which the book addresses. I doubt there is a child in the western world who has not hat some time had conflicts over a messy room. The book, although written for children presents the adult point of view as well, which is perhaps a little unusual.

Kitty, who is an ordinary girl parents split up when she was little. She does speak to her father but know she has a new man in the house who happens to be her mothers boyfriend. He doesn't live with her but he might as well with the amount of time he spends there! I will leave the rest for you to read but believe me it is all you need to know to know it is excellent. I give ths a 9 out of 10.