Mama's Babies

by Gary Crew

Book Overview

"By the time I was nine years old I had begun to doubt that Mama Pratchett, the woman with whom I had lived for as long as I could remember, was in fact my mother..." So begins Gary Crew's chilling... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550377248
• ISBN13: 9781550377248
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Annick Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Serial Mama

In the 1890's, 3 women were sentenced to death for murdering children that they had taken for money.Mama's Babies is based on these real-life 'baby farmers', and is seen from the point of view of a (fictional) teenaged girl who begins to realize her life isn't normal, as children continue to join her "mama"s household and eventually disappear mysteriously.