Baby islandTwelve-year-old Mary Wallace and her ten-year-old sister Jean survive the wreck of an ocean liner on its way to Australia and manage to make it to a seemingly deserted island in a lifeboat with four babies. |
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User Review - Stacey - GoodreadsWe are currently reading this aloud together. Two young girls stranded on an island with four babies. We all laughed out loud when the Girl's names were Mary and Jean, and there was an Aunt Emma and an Elijah-- No Caleb--(there was a funny monkey though, so maybe that represented him). Read full review
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User Review - Adrienne - GoodreadsI think my third-grade teacher read this to us. It caught my imagination and inspired me to be a nurturing mother. I still think about this book all the time. Read full review
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