a SUPER AWESOME book

i read a book called "Also Known As Harper" by Ann Haywood Leal

i got it from my teacher for xmas.

its about a girl named Harper Lee Morgan who lives in a borrowed house with her mother (who has a part-time job cleaning hotels) and her little brother. about 2 years ago, her mother gave birth to another child, but the kid never opened her eyes, and the family forbid each other to mention her. Harper's father (who always abused the family, although not so much Harper's brother) left them a year ago and took all their money so they're very poor. her younger brother always waits in their front porch each afternoon in hope that their father will return. later, they're forced to move into a low quality motel, where they meet some friends. its very sad, cause *SPOILER ALERT* a good friend of theirs dies and an enemy (the daughter of the woman who forced them to leave their old home) ends up having a younger sibling who didn't end up breathing. Harper's only dreams are to read her poems in front of her class at an annual poem-reading contest (she got her talent from her literature-loving mom), for her family to live in a proper home, and to find a REAL best friend (unlike the one she had at school - she was forced to leave school to take care of her preschool brother since her mother was busy looking for work - who pretended to not know her when she saw harper walking on the street)

also very sad, and very touching

no lovey dovey stuff, so i like it