Tallahassee Higgins

I read this in 4th grade during our state testing week. My librarian thought it was too advanced for me but two days later I returned because I had finished it and needed another. I always seem to recall this book when I think back to elementary school. Though it has been years since I read it, the......more

This book really is an example for what kids should NOT do if they are ever in a situation similar to this book's setting. Tallahassee was such a brat, and the aunt didn't act much better. Then, all of a sudden at the end of the book, everyone just changes their attitude and everything's alright. No......more

Weird!......more

Yes, this is about a girl named Tallahassee. (I knew very well what "Tallahassee" was, considering I'd recently moved to Florida when I read this and that was the capital of my new state.) Poor Tallahassee kind of has an abusive mom, but not in the more obvious way. Her mom has been stringing her al......more

Tallahassee is a resilient little girl with a free-spirited mother. Her mom, who she calls Liz, suffers from depression, and Tallahassee, however young, is often there to cheer her mother up. But when her waitress mother meets one of many boyfriends, she decides to run away from Florida to Californi......more