Book review - The Warden's Daughter

RIGHT from the start this poignant coming-of-age tale grabs your attention and won't let go until the very end.
How many kids can say that they live in an apartment above the entrance to the county jail? And how many can say they have the run of the jail itself - well, almost?
Twelve-year-old Cammie can. She's the warden's daughter, with a sullen inmate named Eloda as a housekeeper. But what Cammie needs most is a mother. Hers died saving her from a milk truck when she was just a baby.
After 12 years, she's tired of being motherless and she figured that if she can't have her biological mother, she'd make do with a surrogate. But all the women she knows are convicted felons.
The closest candidate she has is Eloda but she is unresponsive, cold even. Cammie also has her eye on a flamboyant shoplifter named Boo Boo.
Cammie is a girl who decides what she wants and then launches herself at it. She's not nicknamed Cannonball for nothing.
Despite her rough and tumble ways, or maybe because of it, Cammie is an endearing child and her quest for a mother is both eye-opening and touching.
Take a little time to read the author's thank you note, and you will discover that the story is inspired by a friend, making it all the more touching.
You will laugh and you will cry and you will thoroughly enjoy The Warden's Daughter.