My Never Ending List

I’m a trailer kid and my momma says I’m a bad kid too, but I try not to get too hung up on these issues. I like to hang around with Calvin as he’s the nicest person you’ve ever met and he takes me places on his bike. Momma seems to cast her anger out on me more than my siblings Ruth Ann and Jackson and why? I don’t know. All of us siblings have different daddies, with Jackson’s daddy trying his best to be a good daddy but in momma’s eyes, it will never be good enough so she hollers at his attempts and they fight constantly. I just wish I knew my daddy, anything about my daddy. When Ruby at school pesters me about my daddy, I have to lie, I just do because I don’t know the truth and lying makes him sound so good. When I ask momma questions pertaining to my daddy, she either gets upset or the subject gets changed. I guess I need to take matters into my own hands if I want answers.

I felt so sorry for Grace Louise reading this story, she just wanted answers about her daddy but her mother was so burned over him that she just didn’t want to talk about him. She just wants the truth, a name, a picture, anything but her momma is tight-lipped and no one else knows anything. Being the oldest, Grace’s daddy left a sore spot in her momma’s heart and she has never gotten over it. Its hard being a single mother with three children and her momma seems to take it out on Grace.   Grace is a happy, adventurous child with a few questions on her mind that just need answering. Grace’s relationship with Calvin, I adored. He truly enjoyed her excursions and he would do anything for her. When she became friends with Louella, I was worried about their friendship; as I read, I thought something horrible would result as they came from such different households. Louella was relentless and I loved how she seemed to push Grace forward, they did so much together. Grace has a knack for finding great friends. There were so many wonderful moments in this book, so many outstanding parts that I could point at and say, that was a piece of Grace but it’s the art show the captured my heart. It had me, I was there with Grace from sunrise to when she finally laid her head on her pillow that evening, exhausted and charged.

I received this book from NetGalley and Amazon Children’s Publishing in exchange for an honest review. Thank you.