1. Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
2. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
3. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
#TLT
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy."
What an opening line! Ellen the narrator is a 10-11 year old in the segregated south who comes from a pretty terrible family but she's a practical, resourceful old soul with a tell it like it is way of speaking that feels exactly right for her voice.