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Twelve-year-old Sarah Nelson worries she will inherit tendancies to be crazy like her mother, who tried to drown Sarah when Sarah was two and did succeed in drowning Sarah's twin brother. There were two sensational trials and Sarah's mother was institutionalized in a mental facility in Texas. Sarah hates it when people discover she's from that Nelson family because it means her professor father, with alcoholic tendancies, will pack them up and move to yet another rented Texas house. There's no o
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I loved this book about Sarah who has a pretty dysfunctional family. Sarah loves words and is trying to figure out how to survive middle school so she writes to Atticus Finch to help her work her way through. A great coming of age story with a really wild plot twist.
Moving book about a young girl dealing with loss. Would recommend for 11 and up, or very mature 10 year old due to morbid subject matter.
Very well written, but I felt like character age vs targeted readership vs story were off.
Jan 09, 2015
Books_the_Magical_Fruit
marked it as to-read
Sep 10, 2018
Tammie Acuff
marked it as to-read
