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Newborn Blue was left on Hannah's doorstep in 1941 and has remained on her farm since. This touching self-discovery story outlines ten-year-old Blue's longing to find her real mama, friendship woes, and eventual appreciation of her unique family situation. Kinsey-Warnock effectively uses simple-folk dialogue to cement the 1950s rural Vermont setting in her intimate portrait of a loving but non-traditional family.