Marching Towards The B3 Ending

I'm assuming there'll be spoilers in this entry, so you probably should assume the same.

There was a very interesting comment on the previous entry, which I'm going to quote almost in its entirety:

Linda Joy Singleton said...

Because I get the sense that this ending is one which could be dire...I'll share a little something I learned from Betsy Byars who learned it from Lois Lowry.

In the book, MUD BLOSSOM, Betsy was going to kill off the grandfather & the dog at the end. The book was beyond galley