Becky Banaras

Rebecca "Becky" Banaras is the main and titular character of the book Becky Bananas, this is your life!.

Characteristics
Becky has long dark brown hair with a fringe, brown eyes and fair skin. She later went bald to to chemotherapy she was having for her leukaemia, and got a wig made out of real hair matching her own, so no one but her and her friend Zoe knew she was actually bald.

Attire
Becky wears a striped long sleeved t shirt with a skirt. For ballet she wears a leotard and a tutu, and ballet shoes. For school she wears the Oakfield school uniform, which consists of a white shirt, tie, grey skirt, waistcoat and red blazer with the schools logo on, and the schools motto Per ardua ad Astra.

Personality
Becky is a cheerful, optimistic character. Despite her illness, she tried not to look on the dark side too much, and is always hopeful towards the future. She cares about her family, particularly her young brother, Danny, very much.

Trivia

 * Becky isn't good at maths.
 * Becky goes to Oakfield, an all girls school.
 * Becky likes the red school colour, thinking it much more exciting than brown or navy, like many schools have.
 * Becky's best friend is Sarah, but she becomes good friends with Zoe when they met in hospital.
 * Becky is from London, and was born in the Bow bells, making her a genuine cockney.
 * Becky had Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML).
 * She discovered she had this aged 10, after going to the doctors about a pain in her leg.
 * Becky's goals were to appear on the TV show This is Your Life, to become a famous ballet dancer, to go to Wonderland (a theme park over in America, and to reach her 12th birthday.
 * She died aged 11 years and 10 months, sadly never having reached any of her goals.
 * Becky's favourite colour is blue.
 * Becky's favourite flowers are Sweet Peas.
 * When Becky was about four years old, she made up a dance about them; she doesn't remember it well, due to her age at the time, but imagines it was mostly hops and skips.
 * Becky almost wrote "Bananas" on an exam paper.
 * She gets nicknamed bananas due to her surname Banaras sounding like it.