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      Borrowed Children

      by George Ella Lyon
      Published
      Mar 1988
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      154
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      Golden Kite Award winner
      1989 Booklist, Editor's Choice
      School Library Journal, Best Books of 1988
      Publisher's Weekly , Best Books of 1988
      Twelve-year-old Amanda Perritt is pitched head-first into adult responsibilities when she has to quit school to care for her newborn brother and invalid mother. She gets an escape, she thinks, when she's offered a trip to stay with her grandmother and her sophisticated Aunt Laura in Memphis. But during the visit, she discovers unexpected parallels between her mother's childhood and her own and comes to understand her own individuality as well as what it means to be part of a family.

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      General Fiction

      Age Level

      Kids (12 & Under) Kids: Middle Grade

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