from the readers: I love Matilda!! it keeps my imagination running, it also theaches a lesson for bad adults. this book is also funny and interesting. i also like it because its a chapter book. --Meela, Year 4 student
The powerful tale of 14-year-old Laura Perryman is told through entries from her diary that she passes on to her great-nephew Michael. He is astonished to discover the remarkable details of her life in the 1900s on the stormy coast of Britain's Scilly Isles, where her family lives on the bounty, and at the mercy, of the ocean. 2 cassettes.