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The Diary of Trilby Frost by Dianne Glaser
5.0
For what is probably the 30th time, I have re-read this book thanks to a public speaking class I was taking. We had to convince our audience of something and I decided to convince them that this was the saddest children's book ever written. Based on my feedback, they agreed.
When I was a kid spending my summers in Kansas City with my Oma, Opa and my three aunts, going to the Raytown branch of the Mid-Continent Library was a regular gig. One summer, I remembered a deliciously depressing book I had read the year before and I wanted to read it again. That was the first time I pulled what every librarian knows. I asked the librarian to help me find a book that was sad, was a diary of a girl a "long time ago", her best friend was an Indian and, wait for it, the cover was yellow. She was not amused and so I spent my time going through each and every single book until I found it.
Years later when I started working part time in the library while in college someone donated an old busted copy so I have one of my very own.
One sentence summary? A heartbreaking Little House on the Prairie tale.
When I was a kid spending my summers in Kansas City with my Oma, Opa and my three aunts, going to the Raytown branch of the Mid-Continent Library was a regular gig. One summer, I remembered a deliciously depressing book I had read the year before and I wanted to read it again. That was the first time I pulled what every librarian knows. I asked the librarian to help me find a book that was sad, was a diary of a girl a "long time ago", her best friend was an Indian and, wait for it, the cover was yellow. She was not amused and so I spent my time going through each and every single book until I found it.
Years later when I started working part time in the library while in college someone donated an old busted copy so I have one of my very own.
One sentence summary? A heartbreaking Little House on the Prairie tale.