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Arrington, Frances
2 Reviews
(2)
4-6
Twelve-year-old Colleen, unable to deny a stranger's deathbed plea, finds herself caught in an agonizing ethical dilemma. Promising to protect the woman's new baby from her abusive husband, Colleen takes the child home to her own mother--who is unaware that her own infant didn't survive and that Colleen has switched the babies. The intriguing premise will draw readers in to this suspenseful and well-told tale set in the pioneer prairie.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2003
(2)
4-6
Prose as clear and spare as the prairie landscape distills eleven-year-old Polly's emotions as she and her younger sister are forced to fend for themselves on the family's homestead after their mother lapses into an irreversible catatonic state. The narrative reflects the story's harsh, late-1800s frontier setting, but it also captures Polly's connection to the prairie and the beauty she sees in her surroundings.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2000
2 reviews
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