Brittany Creek's Reviews > Half a Chance

"Half a Chance" is a book that is about a Lucy who loved photography very much, partially to do with her father being a professional photographer that traveled all over the world. Lucy never believed that her pictures were good enough to compare with her father. She really wanted to show everyone she was good enough so she decided she needed a way of knowing for sure. When Lucy meets a boy named Nate that is visiting his grandmother next door that's suffering from memory loss in her old age. Eventually, Lucy's father returns and announces that he wants to start a photography competition. Lucy is dying to enter, but knows that it's unfair to enter since her father is the one running the contest. She decides to instead, enter the competition as Nate and submits a photo of his grandmother and ends up winning the contest.

I rated this book 3 stars because I really like the way the author told the story and the emotions behind it. This book would probably be too old for the children in my classroom but it could be a leisure book in a slightly older aged room. My problems with this book were that I wished Lucy had more confidence in her work instead of feeling like she's not good enough. It's something I think would be good for children to actually feel confident in the things they do and too many books have main characters that feel they aren't good enough to succeed in something they love.