mantis3216
Dec 4, 2010, 10:59 PM
I started reading this book when I was in the hospital but never got to finish it. It has been a year now and I haven't been able to find this novel... The problem is that I don't know the author or the title. I was wondering if anyone out there has heard of it.
This story was of a very poor family with lots of problems. The father was an alcoholic and the mother was never a good influence on the kids. The family had to move a lot and I hadn't gotten to the point that says why. >_< The father would just come home one night and say that they had to leave so they would pack everything that they had in the car and drive to live somewhere else. The father finally gets a job as a Janitor of a really high class school for rich people and well known named kids. His two children one little boy and his older sister get to go to this school for free because their father is now an employee of the school. The boy ends up getting into fights and the principal threatens to expel him because no one likes the fact that these kids have the opportunity that they had. The girl wears her prettiest dress to school on her first day and another girl comments and says, "wow you must love that dress a lot because it is looking pretty worn out" This is the only dress this little girl owns. At the time I was reading the family was living in an apartment... or some kind of beat up place with 1 bed and the 2 kids shared the couch.
I really want to finish this story but I don't even know the author. Can anyone help? I do remember that it was a well-known author though.
This story was of a very poor family with lots of problems. The father was an alcoholic and the mother was never a good influence on the kids. The family had to move a lot and I hadn't gotten to the point that says why. >_< The father would just come home one night and say that they had to leave so they would pack everything that they had in the car and drive to live somewhere else. The father finally gets a job as a Janitor of a really high class school for rich people and well known named kids. His two children one little boy and his older sister get to go to this school for free because their father is now an employee of the school. The boy ends up getting into fights and the principal threatens to expel him because no one likes the fact that these kids have the opportunity that they had. The girl wears her prettiest dress to school on her first day and another girl comments and says, "wow you must love that dress a lot because it is looking pretty worn out" This is the only dress this little girl owns. At the time I was reading the family was living in an apartment... or some kind of beat up place with 1 bed and the 2 kids shared the couch.
I really want to finish this story but I don't even know the author. Can anyone help? I do remember that it was a well-known author though.