This is a true story of a small girl born in a home where she experiences one disaster after another. Growing up in a family of five children and three adults, one of which is her mother's lover, she suffers third degree burns on her upper body, boil infections, a dog bite to the jugular vein, and a severed toe before she was five years old. However, she perseveres and develops an "I can do anything" attitude which results in over achieving every task she undertakes. This is due to the love and support from a foster mother who takes Betty and Barbara into her home. The story is filled with tragedy, comedy, and warmth and gives an insight into how kids survive in poverty and how schools can many times work against them.

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This is a true story of a small girl born in a home where she experiences one disaster after another. Growing up in a family of five children and three adults, one of which is her mother's lover, she suffers third degree burns on her upper body, boil infections, a dog bite to the jugular vein, and a severed toe before she was five years old. However, she perseveres and develops an "I can do anything" attitude which results in over achieving every task she undertakes. This is due to the love and support from a foster mother who takes Betty and Barbara into her home. The story is filled with tragedy, comedy, and warmth and gives an insight into how kids survive in poverty and how schools can many times work against them.

Sam is a young girl, who takes you with her on an everyday adventure to her favorite place in the zoo. Enjoy the wonder of living the life of a young girl with the adventure of the every day world around her. Footnote: The author wrote this story after an outing with two friends of mine and their daughters to the zoo. It is about an inventive and creative young girl, and, in her voice, how she sees the world. Although I enjoy a story with fantasy and magic in them, this is a completely normal girl in a completely normal life, who chooses (hopefully as all of us) to live it exceptionally well.

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