This was a charming book. I really liked the main character, Sarah Nelson. Sarah loves words (I love words also). Some words she classifies as "trouble words." One of the "trouble words" for Sarah is "crazy." She is carefully watching for signs that she will turn out crazy like her mother who is incarcerated at a mental hospital for a crime she committed when Sarah was 2 yrs. old. This story takes place the summer before Sarah's 7th grade year and she is expecting a pretty boring summer, but this year, instead of having to go to her grandparents' home in Houston, she gets to stay at home and learns a lot about herself and her family in this summer. She spends a lot of time writing to Atticus Finch (character of one of my favorite novels, "To Kill a Mockingbird") as part of a school assignment. I hope it makes all of you curious enough to go pick up "To Kill a Mockingbird" after you read this.
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