Baby

By Patricia (Pritzkau) MacLachlan

Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., New York, 1993, softcover, 32 pages

Twelve-year-old Larkin returns home one day to discover a baby sitting in a basket in the driveway of her family's house. The only clue to the baby's appearance is a note from the child's mother. "This is Sophie," the note reads. "She is almost a year old and she is good...I will come back for her one day. I love her."

Larkin, her mother and father, and her grandmother all welcome Sophie into their home, caring for her and teaching her games and new words. As Sophie grows, she learns to walk and speak. Larkin and her family come to love this baby as their own, all the while knowing that Sophie's mother will return one day to take her from them.

"A searching, beautifully written story." -- Kirkus Reviews

Other books by Patrica MacLachlan can be found at other GRHC website pages:
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