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Lizzie and the Lost Baby

by Cheryl Blackford

Ages: 9+

Published: 2016

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/HMH

ISBN: 978-0-544-57099-3

Keywords: Prejudice, Travelers (Gypsies), World War II

Evacuated to the English countryside during World War II, Lizzie, ten, finds a baby left under a tree and soon is in the midst of a moral dilemma about what to do.