The Summer we found the baby / Amy Hest.
Told from three viewpoints, a brisk historical tale follows the experiences of two sisters who discover an abandoned baby on the library steps, while their estranged friend, racing to complete an important errand for his World War II soldier brother, jumps to the wrong conclusion.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780763660079
- ISBN: 0763660078
- Physical Description: 181 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2020.
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | 10+ years HL570L Lexile Decoding demand: 88 (very high) Semantic demand: 97 (very high) Syntactic demand: 88 (very high) Structure demand: 89 (very high) Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.9 2 511901. |
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Subject: | Abandoned children > Juvenile fiction. Siblings > Juvenile fiction. Families > Juvenile fiction. Long Island (N.Y.) > Juvenile fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Crawford County.
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Crawford County Library-Bourbon | JF HES (Text) | 33431000554301 | J Fiction | Available | - |
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The Summer We Found the Baby
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Summary
The Summer We Found the Baby
Set during World War II, this poignant, briskly paced historical novel relays the events of one extraordinary summer from three engaging points of view. On the morning of the dedication of the new children's library in Belle Beach, Long Island, eleven-year-old Julie Sweet and her six-year-old sister, Martha, find a baby in a basket on the library steps. At the same time, twelve-year-old Bruno Ben-Eli is on his way to the train station to catch the 9:15 train into New York City. He is on an important errand for his brother, who is a soldier overseas in World War II. But when Bruno spies Julie, the same Julie who hasn't spoken to him for sixteen days, heading away from the library with a baby in her arms, he has to follow her. Holy everything, he thinks. Julie Sweet is a kidnapper. Of course, the truth is much more complicated than the children know in this heartwarming and beautifully textured family story by award-winning author Amy Hest. Told in three distinct voices, each with a different take on events, the novel captures the moments and emotions of a life-changing summer -- a summer in which a baby gives a family hope and brings a community together.