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Flour Babies is a day school novel for young adults, written by Anne Fine and published by Hamilton in 1992. It features a group "science experiment" in a classroom full of underachieving students: "When his class of underachievers is assigned to spend three torturous weeks taking care of their own "babies" in the form of bags of flour, Simon makes amazing discoveries about himself while ...
Burn Baby Burn is a 2016 young adult novel written by Cuban-American author Meg Medina.It was first published in March, 2016 through Candlewick Press and follows a young woman growing up during the summer of 1977, when the Son of Sam began targeting young women.
The Horn Book Magazine noted that the age of the book's intended audience was unclear but that it should still be read. [1] The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books called it an "excellent selection for early chapter book readers". [2] The International Reader's Association put it on its 1994 list of books good for teaching. [3]
The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby is a 2002 children's graphic novel by American author Dav Pilkey, credited on the cover as in-universe authors George Beard and Harold Hutchins. The book is a spin-off of Pilkey's Captain Underpants series. [1] It follows a baby named Billy who gains superpowers shortly after birth.
Gone, Baby, Gone is a 1998 detective novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, his fourth in his series featuring Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. In 2007 a film adaptation of the same name was released, directed by Ben Affleck .
Dustbin Baby is a 2001 children's novel by Jacqueline Wilson. It focuses on April, a fourteen-year-old girl who was abandoned by her mother in a dustbin when she was only a few minutes old. After a blazing row with her foster mother, she goes in search of her past. The book was adapted into a television film in 2008 by the BBC.
Lois Gould was a journalist and author who had written one novel, Such Good Friends, in 1970. [1] In 1972, the feminist magazine Ms. began its print run. [1] In December 1972 Ms. published Gould's short story "X: A Fabulous Child's Story" in the Stories for Free Children column in its sixth issue.
The story is set five years in the future in 1953. World War III has been going on for several years. Unlike in many other depictions, it is seen as a prolonged war, which does not destroy all civilization at once - but extensive use of nuclear bombs causes radiation poisoning and has led to a rash of mutated babies (it is implied that only a small fraction of pregnancies result in the birth ...