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. ..young fans of old-fashioned hard luck tales that end happily will snap this up. -- BCCB . ..[an] optimistic ending about survival and friendship. -- Booklist This is Victoriana with no steampunk shenanigans and no tongues in cheeks, just well-orchestrated, straightforward storytelling for newish readers--with a bonus of warm pencil drawings reminiscent of Lois Lenski. -- Horn Book Magazine A warm story about friendship, but it's also an introduction to the treatment of children and animals in the early 1900s. -- School Library Journal A touching and emotionally satisfying foundling tale. -- Kirkus Reviews

. ..[an] optimistic ending about survival and friendship. -- Booklist This is Victoriana with no steampunk shenanigans and no tongues in cheeks, just well-orchestrated, straightforward storytelling for newish readers--with a bonus of warm pencil drawings reminiscent of Lois Lenski. -- Horn Book Magazine A warm story about friendship, but it's also an introduction to the treatment of children and animals in the early 1900s. -- School Library Journal A touching and emotionally satisfying foundling tale. -- Kirkus Reviews

A touching and emotionally satisfying foundling tale. -- Kirkus Reviews

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Valerie Hobbs is the recipient of the 1999 PEN/Norma Klein Award, a biennial prize that recognizes an emerging voice of literary merit among American writers of children's fiction. She is the author of young adult and middle-grade novels including Sheep, Defiance, Anything but Ordinary, and The Last Best Days of Summer. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she has taught academic writing. Valerie lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband. Jennifer Thermes lives in an old house with her husband and children, three cats, one Dalmatian dog, and countless mice. She is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design.

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