Mean Margaret

A woodchuck couple happen upon a human child, abandoned in a ditch by her siblings, and they name her Margaret and take her home. Margaret wreaks havok on the woodchuck home, and it is only because of the love and care of the woodchuck wife that Margaret is retained in the new family. Somehow, out of these efforts to tame Margaret a community emerges, and all are left, somehow, better.

I cannot imagine that children would enjoy this book, and I wonder that it was published at all, much less that it was a finalist for the National Book Award. But perhaps I am missing something...