I read this book at the young age of 13 and it had a terrible impression on me. It made me afraid to grow up, and I felt continuelly depressed about the blant favoritism shown by the girls parents.If I was their parents I would not have kept that crazy and wicked grandmother around I don't care who she is. She went out of her way to hurt Louise. That's just plain wicked.I also found Louise's sudden interest in being a doctor quite unbelieveable. She had never mentioned anything like that before and I just found it innane.I also found it disturbing that they had her falling in love with someone so much older then herself. Children can't look at that and make any sense of it. It was so embrassing to me that i didn't tell my parents till years later how uncomfortable I felt about it.I would never recommond this book to anyone ever! Certainly never for children and certainly not for anyone else.