num_pages: 136
description: 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.
language: English
title: Borrowed Children
titlecomplete: Borrowed Children
genres: Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Family, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 135
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: University Press of Kentucky