WONDERLAND

WONDERLAND by Barbara O'Connor

Barbara O'Connor's Wonderland is the story of an unlikely friendship between two girls who come from "different sides of the tracks."

Rose Tully comes from a very wealthy family. She really doesn't fit in with the girls of the other wealthy families in her family's social circle and longs for a best friend. Her mom is on the search for a new maid.

Mavis Jeeter is tired of moving from place to place as her mom quits one job after another. She's really never had the opportunity to have a best friend, because they never stay in one place long enough. Her mom has now decided to apply for the housemaid position.

Thus begins an unlikely friendship, but the friendship isn't the end of their adventures. When the gatekeeper's, of Rose Tully's housing community, dog dies, he is no longer the happy, go-lucky man he used to be. Rose and Mavis take it upon themselves to help him out. The question is will he like the solution they have in mind for him?

Overall this is a book celebrating friendship, dogs, and caring for others.

HEADS UP- There are a couple of times that Rose goes past the boundary her mother said she could to.