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Aug 03, 2015wyenotgo rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
What at first appears to be a heartwarming story about the rescue of a delightfully intelligent child from a life of abuse and deprivation quickly turns into a cockeyed religious diatribe. This is a highly manipulative book that should be kept out of the reach of children until they're able to make up their own minds about things. Only the fact that the story is so unbelievable renders it less dangerous; no five year old child, regardless of her precocity would have come up with such abstruse philosophical ideas as those worked out by Anna. Sydney George Hopkins, a.k.a. Fynn is too clever by half, but I wish he had honestly presented the book as a novel rather than pretending that it was a "true story".