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184 pp.
| Philomel |
May, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-399-23975-8$$17.99
(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