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Girl Who Lived on the Ferris Wheel

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I really enjoyed this when I was young and I have read it even as an adult. The story revolves around Til, a girl in the 1940s, who lives with her unbalanced mother. She only gets to see her divorced father once a week and he always takes her to an amusement park for a ride on the Ferris wheel which scares her. The Ferris wheel represents (I believe)life with her mother. It's an up and down existence and Til lives in fear. The mother, Gertrude, is a frighteningly realistic character and the reader feels the tension of the household as Gertrude becomes more and more obsessive-compulsive and more and more intolerant of Til. It's almost unbearable as Til struggles to help save herself. A chilling suspense story that I strongly recommend.

I read this book in the sixth grade when I was dealing with my own family traumas. Those days, I inhaled books, but I never looked at titles or authors. This is one title I actually remembered. Later, in my adult years, I tried to find the book again and was crushed when I couldn't remember the authors name, and no one I talked to knew of the book. Finally, I've found the info for it, and can't wait to locate a copy!

This is a great story of a young girl's self reliance and bravery. In the end, Til saves her own life with courage and intelligence.

This was a great book, the way she wrote it was just superb. It had everything you could want in a book. I wold definetely recommend this book to any of my friends.