The Picking Fields is an amazing true acount of living in poverty with a drucken atrosety of a father. This book will grab you into an emotional mind of a child living in an unheathy environment full of sex, poverty, and hunger.
Leanna is a young girl of 6 who was born into a family of 11 and had to, at a very young age, learn how to SURVIVE by her own means.
This book contain some mature content so check with your parents before reading.
PS: This is the true story of one of my friend working here at a public libray and it is not for the faint of heart.