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Reader reviewed by Meg

This is a really great book about a girl growing up in poor neighborhood. She starts babysitting for a teenage mom who has 2 young children, and she learns about true poverty, but also about the love between mother and child.
The book is really great because it is told by the narrator, a teenage girl trying to do well in school and eventually go to college. So the book manages to show how difficult the mother's life is, without having a totally depressing hopeless feeling.