The Box Children

Lou Ann Campbell is nearly twelve years old. She lives on a farm in Texas, and keeps five little dolls in a home-made shoebox house she fixed up for them. The box children are her only friends, the brothers and sisters she never had, the babies her mother was supposed to have but didn't. This is her first diary, and it's hard to hide it from her bullying older brother, her philandering father, and her crazy pregnant mother. But these are her secrets, her hopes, her dreams. And this is the summer she will stop talking to dolls...and start thinking about people and places she doesn't know yet.Wyse, Sharon is the author of 'The Box Children', published 2003 under ISBN 9780606314268 and ISBN 0606314261.