The Golden Ticket is a junior novel for, suitable for a child in perhaps years 4 - 6 at Primary School.
Ais is a talented and gifted student, and has special classes at school that cater for her abilities. Ais is starting to fall behind at school and the pressures of keeping up her grades, to what is expected to her by not only her parents and teachers, but her friends and those around her also.
Ais decides to cheat on a school test, in hopes that by winning it two years in a row, her parents will be able to forgive her for her low report card and low score on her English Test.
Ais' plan comes undone when her cheating is found out by a fellow classmate.
There are lessons to be learned in this novel, not just to children about the consequences of cheating, but also to parents and caregivers about the pressure our children are under to succeed and always achieve the highest results.
Ais sees her sister and her peers having fun, playing sports etc, and going on hiking camps, whereby Ais has never been given these opportunities as she has always been epected to be the scholar of the family.
I quite enjoyed this story, and the lessons it teaches us.
4 Stars: I enjoyed it and would recommend it to people who like the genre. I will definitely want to read more books by this author.
Thankyou to Netgalley, RB Media and Recorded Books for my advanced audio copy in exchange for my honest review.
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