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DON'T READ THIS BOOK!!!

I guess you could read this book if you want to hear a pitiful story about a 7 year old boy that is beaten so badly on a regular basis that he almost dies.  I am team teaching a class with another teacher at my school and she wanted to know what we should teach next.  I've never taught 7th grade so I asked her what she usually teaches 'cause she's taught for about 30 years.  She said The Lottery Rose.  I'd never read it so I said, "Okay, but I should probably read it before I try to teach it to the kids."  I've found that it usually works out better that way.  So, Sunday I read it.  I didn't love all the yucky stuff, but I told myself it'd be okay because it had to end happy, right?  Nope.  In fact it got worse...there is a little retarded boy in it that the abused boy, Georgie, absolutely loves.  The only person he's ever really loved.  (I'm going to tell you what happens because you should never read it, anyway.)  The little retarded boy dies!!!!!  Not only that but they never tell us if anybody ever loves Georgie enough to take him home or something.  It just ends.  My feelings at the end of this book put Petey in "Touched by an Angel" to shame.