The Alphabet Book Challenge, "O"
The "O" Books Book one: Poor Deer by Claire Two little girls who live next door to each other go out to a muddy lake to play. They are seen by a teacher who tells them they should go home. They go back to their houses and decide to play a version of hide and seek. The neighbor girl climbs into an old freezer. It locks. The other girl can't figure out how to open it. She tries and tries, finally gives up, and runs home, pretending to have been there all along. Hours later, the neighbor's girl is discovered. Dead. Poor Deer is created at that moment. Poor Deer is part human, part little girl, and she tries her best to coax the girl into confessing, but it doesn't work. Poor Deer trails the girl as she grows up, becomes a teenager, deals with her crazy mom and her doting aunt. The girl figures the only way she can make everything right is to run away to Niagara Falls. Okay why? I was interested up until this point because it made no sense. By the time I got to the ...