Helpful Score: 3
This is a great book. It takes place in Deep Water, West Virginia. (Yes, Deep Water is the name of a real town!) I remember reading it in school. It really is a great story.
Helpful Score: 3
This won the 1994 Newberry Award. It's an excellent story, and very heartwarming.
Helpful Score: 1
When she died and all her brothers and sisters passed me from house to house, nobody ever wanting to take care of me for long, I still had that lesson in love deep inside me and I didn't grow mean or hateful when nobody cared enough to make me their own little girl. Then Uncle Ob and Aunt May from West Virginia visited, and they knew an angel when they saw her and they took me on home.
Helpful Score: 1
RL 5.8, ages 10 and up. Winner of the 1993 Newbery Award.