Olivia's First Term
By Lyn Gardner
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Lyn Gardner
Lyn Gardner is the author of Olivia's First Term and the other Olivia books. She was born in London and now lives near Richmond Park with her partner and two daughters. A theatre critic for The Guardian, she goes to the theatre five or six nights a week, which should leave no time for writing books at all. Before she became a journalist, Lyn was a tea lady, a waitress and sold advertising space for a magazine called Sludge. Her ambitions are to learn to tap dance and walk the high wire, but it may have to be the low wire as she is a bit scared of heights!
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5When the story opens, Olivia and her little sister Eel are in London with their high-wire walking father. They are on their way to their Grandmother's stage school, where Olivia’s father hopes their grandmother will allow them to attend.
While Olivia’s First Term by Lyn Gardner is a book about an arts school and how the sisters fit in to a more structured and artistic environment, as opposed to circus life, its central theme revolves around bullying. Katie, a talented (but spoilt) young actress is seen bullying Georgia, Olivia and various classmates. I found Katie’s character to be a caricature of bullying, so much so that I almost imagined her as an evil villain, standing in the corner, twirling her mustache and laughing cruelly whenever her plans succeeded. However, she is a very good bully and the feelings of despair that the girls feel whenever she’s around very real.
The story moves quickly and there are many things about bullying that parents and children can discuss - why did the girls keep the bullying to themselves and what should children do when faced with a hopeless looking situation. I wasn't completely taken by the characters, Olivia was a little hard to like and Katie was extremely bratty. I also found that it got a bit repetitive towards the end - Katie does something bad, Katie gets away with it - and I found myself hoping that it would resolve quickly. However, in time it did and overall I think it’s a good starting point to discuss things like bullying, lying and other such behaviour with kids.