I just finished reading a novel called “Lullabies for little criminals.” This book is amazing…I do not like reading for pleasure, ever, but I finished this book in like 3 and a half weeks, which is crazy, for me anyways. I don’t want to say too much about it, because you all HAVE to read it, but I’ll give away some of the plot. The book is based over like two years of this young girl’s life. The little girl’s name is Baby and she is 12-13. Baby always only knew poverty and she eventually got into horrible things such as drugs and prostitution. It is remarkable how incredibly child-like her mind and description stays and at the same time, she is living a life no child should ever know. One of Baby’s descriptions that stayed in my mind, was one she made about the moon one night, she said the moon was “like a hole in the elbow of a black sweater”, describing how the moon peaked brightly out of an all black sky. I am never one of those people to encourage others to read, because I really never do but Oh my Goodness you must read this book! haha. You will be saddened, happy, freaked out, it just plays with all your emotions and makes you wonder how anyone could live the way Baby and her 25 year old Father do. This book helped me realized how severely-troubled children think, and how they feel that they cannot turn back, once they have gone too far with the wrong things. It was an amazing book! Thanks for letting me borrow it C-vet. — jo