"Quite simply, a wonderfully moving story about the power of love.
--Times Educational Supplement
"A wry first-person narrative. . . . Discussion of handicaps, death and
bereavement, and religious belief are carefully integrated into the
story."--School Library Journal
Twelve-year-old Anna is looking forward to the birth of her baby
brother. Ben arrives, but is disabled. Anna loves him immensely but she
finds herself unable to admit the truth about Ben to her friends.
Eventually the truth gets out and leads not to the ridicule Anna
expected, but sympathy and understanding.
Elizabeth Laird's award-winning young adult novels include A Little
Piece of Ground and Crusade.