As Far as Mill Spring

This book touched me more than any other children's book I've read. I bought it for my children who cried and laughed along with me. Robert and Abiah live in a cruel foster home, escape one night in a boxcar and travel to different places with a dog who follows them. The dog gets killed, Abiah and Robert lose each other, Robert is beaten by thungs. It is nearing Christmas and Robert wants to find his real mother and be with her on that day. He goes by box cars filled with hobos to the town he has heard she lives in. there are so many adventures in this book one can hardly put it down! The ending of the story is one that made my children and I cry. It is really a Christmas story and one of faith, hope, and terrible events that could have broken adults, but not these children.