The Summer We Found the Baby

<b>Set during World War II this poignant briskly paced historical novel relays the events of one extraordinary summer from three engaging points of view.</b><br><br>On the morning of the dedication of the new children&#146;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&#146;t spoken to him for sixteen days heading away from the library with a baby in her arms he has to follow her. <i>Holy everything</i> he thinks. <i>Julie Sweet is a kidnapper.</i><br><br>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 &#151; a summer in which a baby gives a family hope and brings a community together.