A review by calypsogilstrap
The Warden's Daughter by Jerry Spinelli

3.0

Good but not Spinelli good. Goes well with Al Capone Does My Shirts but also a great story about a girl who grows up without a mother and must deal with the anger of being surrounded by girls. Cammie expects the women of the prison (where she lives with her father the warden) to become her replacement mother while she comes of age. The first person narrative along with a flashback and diary really bring the story together. Great anthropology piece of the late 1950's childhood in Philadelphia.