For Joseph Flood, life is tough. Joseph's parents are divorced. Joseph lives with his drug and alcohol addicted mother in a homeless shelter in a ghetto neighborhood.
Joseph is enrolled in another new school because Joseph and his mother move from shelter to shelter, as a result of Joseph's mother using the child support money to support her habit.
Joseph's father is serving in Iraq and his aunt and uncle, who live close by, are not fully aware of Joseph's strife as he struggles to keep Mama clean and to hold their broken family together while trying to keep what's going on in his life a secret.
A good pleasure read for anyone 12+ who is enduring an unpleasant situation and can empathize with the character/situation in the book. Knowing someone else is having the same problem as you is good medicine.
There are some descriptive phrases that are redundant.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
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