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WE BOTH STARE AT THE BOX. IT'S TREMBLING. JUST A LITTLE. I CRANE TO LOOK INSIDE. SOMETHING SMALL AND PALE FLAILS AT THE LIGHT. A TINY HAND.
Walking home from school one evening, 13-year-old Amy is shocked to find a newborn baby left alone at the bus stop. She decides to trace the missing mother but soon discovers that the bus stop baby isn't the first child to be abandoned in the village, that everything isn't as simple as she thought, and that at the centre of it all, is another heartbreaking secret.
A touching story about right and wrong, and the vast grey area in between
About the author
Born in Chobham, by an airfield, and raised in Winchester on the banks of the River Itchen, Fleur Hitchcock grew up as the youngest child of three. When she was eight, she wrote a story about an alien and a jelly. It was called THE ALIEN AND THE JELLY and filled four exercise books. She grew up a little, went away to school near Farnham, studied English in Wales, and, for the next twenty years, sold Applied Art in the city of Bath. When her younger child was seven, she embarked on the Writing for Young People MA at Bath Spa and graduated with a distinction. Now living outside Bath, between parenting and writing, Fleur Hitchcock works with her husband, a toy-maker, looks after other people's gardens and grows vegetables.
Fleur's debut novel SHRUNK! was THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Book of the Week', and you can follow her at: www.fleurhitchcock.wordpress.com or on Twitter: @fleurhitchcock
Summary
After finding an abandoned baby, 13-yr-old Amy sets out to find the mother. On her way home from school, 13-year-old Amy finds a newborn baby abandoned at the village bus stop. It's wrong, just like when Mum walked out on Amy and her sister ten years ago - so she tries to fix it, by finding the baby's mother.
Foreword
After finding an abandoned baby, 13-yr-old Amy sets out to find the mother
Additional text
With wonderful complex characterisation, and true-to-life emotions, this is a great story to provoke thought in your young tween or teen
