To My Lawyer, Saxonberg: the genius of E.L. Konigsburg

There are classics of childhood that get the easy mention, the legacy slots in the literature canon: Here we have Laura Ingalls, Anne of Green Gables, Billy Coleman and his coon hounds in "Where the Red Fern Grows." And there are understated classics that elbow their way more subtly into beloved literature, wildly popular but still deeply personal -- books that read like a private letter to every reader. Meg Murry ("A Wrinkle in Time") lives in this category, and so does Claudia Kincaid.