Hating Alison Ashley

I didn't know a thing about this book except (1) it is a 1001 Children's Book and (2) one of the main character has the same name as I originally had and (3) it's our book club read for January. The cover was awful and the title worried me, but I sat down to read it today and read it all in a lovely whirl of a few hours. I love the wildly imaginative Erika Yurken who manages to deal with her disappointing life with an odd combination of repeated trips to the school nurse's office and zany stories to explain all the sadnesses. Completely delightful and fully deserving of being reissued here in America with a brilliant new cover.