(All images and reviews uploaded from Red Cedar Book Award site)From the opening sentence, “Half the town’s driving past our farm ... just to stare at a man driving a tractor,” the teller gets you wondering, first about what’s so strange about a man on a tractor, then what’s meant by “this whole big mess,” and why s/he is recording and hiding numbers on the wall behind the mattress. This last mystery is cleared up on the second page: “Thirty-two days since that day my daddy dragged Prince’s body to the burn pile and set it afire, then walked away from the farm. And us.” But the first two aren’t. You will have to read the whole book to understand, and by then you may have changed the way you look at your own life.
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What do you think of the father in this story? I can't believe that a father could treat his own daughter so poorly! I was in tears when he didn't even acknowledge his daughter's birthday.
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