Fiction by Meg Eilson
Layla is fourteen years old and lives in serious poverty with a supremely indifferent mother and a needy six-year-old brother. She is super smart and gets good grades almost without effort, but most of her energy is spent taking care of her baby brother and simply surviving. The reader knows this situation is unsustainable and has to blow up, but Layla is determined to keep gong no matter what.
The character of Layla was heart-breakingly believable, and this whole story was amazingly well-written. The book was engrossing but not necessarily enjoyable. It was awfully bleak and sad. I really wanted things to work out better than they did....
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