Borrowed Children

by George Ella Lyon

Book Overview

" 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531057518
• ISBN13: 9780531057513
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

this is a very good book for you to read.

I believe the book the Borrowed Children by Geogre Ella Lyon was interesting to read because it was a book to read that will help you make a choice between family, and school. And also the cause and the effect behind your decision. The set was belivable, and you could tell if you just look at it. Mandy is trying to express herself, and trying to go back to school. Yes it made sense. Because Mandy stop going to school to help family, out because her mother nearly died giving birth to William(her brother). Mandy is a good way of getting a teen to think about what will be the cause and the effect of their choice. I think that any body between the ages of 7 and up could read this book.

Borrowed Children

Mandy is twelve years old,and she has to take care of her two younger sisters,nine-year-old Anna and five-year-old Helen.Her two older brothers,Ben and David,are 14 and 16.One day they have a new baby brother,Willie.Mandy's mother is tired from Willie's birth and really weak.So Mandy had to keep the house running with David and Ben.And she gets to escape all this work by going to her grandparents' house for two weeks in Memphis as a christmas present from her presents.