The book called Begging for Change is about a girl named raspberry and she wants to change her whole life because she has a drug addicted father and she has a troubled girl in her life named Shiketa. She doesn't want that. Shiketa is a troubled girl because she hit Raspberry's mom on the head. Her mom got hurt so badly. I felt so bad for her while I was reading. So she had to go to the hospital. While Raspberry's mom was in the hospital, Raspberry's mom had told her that she had to stay with Zora. Before they left Zora had to use the bathroom. So she asked Raspberry to hold her purse. Raspberry saw lots of money inside the purse. She wanted to take it. Do you think she will take it? And if she does do you think Zora will find out that she is a stealer? If you want to know read the book and find out.

Queen Marie Rousseau is intelligent and capable. She is also bossy and selfish. Spoiled from birth by her father and three older brothers (and somewhat less by her mother) and homeschooled until she was in third grade, Queen has no idea how to relate to her fifth-grade classmates. She doesn't seem able to keep her mouth shut and often treats them with scorn. When a new boy, Leroy, appears in class—smelly, ill-dressed, and claiming he is from Africa—Queen is sure he is lying and becomes determined to prove it. Following him, she discovers that he is running errands for a neighbor