The Girl Who Lived on the Ferris Wheel

by Louise Moeri

Til realizes with increasing urgency that her divorced mother's violently abusive behavior is getting more and more out of control.

Genres: Fiction, Young Adult

117 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1979

Reviews

[Penny Johnston · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I picked up this book as a young teen, I had no idea what it would be about. Carnival life, maybe? I couldn't have been more wrong. The book disturbed me, but I couldn't put it down. Eye-opening and heart-breaking.

[Leah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of those books that stays with you. I first read this as a tween and have had my own copy since then. I’ve read it many, many times.

[jcad]

This book is a disturbing portrait of an adult falling apart and becoming an increasing threat to her child - and the helpless and hopeless place that child is in, because she is only a child, and it's her word against her mother's. It terrified me when I read it, and images from it still pop into my head, decades later.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Girl living with an abusive mother.

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was my second time reading this book. I read it in public school years and years ago and never forgot it. Hunted it down used on Amazon to read again...

[Connie Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very sad but informative read.