The Summer We Found the Baby Format: Hardback

Description: 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.

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Narrative Type: book

Type: book

Intended Audience: Children/juvenile

Book Title: Summer We Found the Baby

Number of Pages: 192 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Topic: Historical / United States / 20th Century, General, Social Themes / Friendship, Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes), People & Places / United States / General, Historical / Military & Wars

Publication Year: 2020

Item Height: 0.7 in

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Juvenile Fiction

Item Weight: 10.5 Oz

Author: Amy Hest

Item Length: 8 in

Item Width: 5.6 in

Format: Hardcover