Roseflower Creek by Jackie Lee Miles

this was really a very good book, I read it in two days. It is about a 10 year old little girl telling her story before her death. It starts with her stepfather killing her. Then she goes on to tell her story. She loses a friend, Her aunt loses her baby, another baby goes into an iron lung at 3 years old and almost dies. Her Mother tries hard to be a good mother, but after the 10 year olds father leaves she gets mixed up with an abusive man whole ends up stealing 10 thousand in cash from a mill he worked at. The 10 year old saves her stepfather from a fire and she gets him to believe the cash burned up in the fire, well he finds out she is lying when so goes back to get the cash. He beats this 10 year old to death and kidnaps her mother and goes on the run. He never gets the cash. In the end the mother shoots the husband and is found guilty of murdering her child and she never says anything against the fact.  she goes to prison and dies of rat poisoning. 

I give the book 4 and a half stars.........it was a very intriguing book