The Year of the Baby
Illustrator
Patrcie Barton
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Year
2013
ISBN
9780547910673
Pages
176 pages
Genre
realism
Format
chapter book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Anna and her best friends Laura and Camille return in an engaging new story. Anna's family has adopted a new baby from China, but her new sister is not thriving and refuses to eat. When Anna and her friends are assigned a science experiment in school, they decide to use the assignment as a way to help Baby Kaylee.
Grade Level
K-3
Lexile Measure
640L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Culture/Ethnicity; Adoption; Interracial; Bicultural; Bilingual; Immigrants and refugees; adopted baby; adoptive family; international adoption; interracial friendship; mixed race; different cultures; bicultural child; bilingual child; immigrant parents
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
Asian (Chinese) / White
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
Best Children's Books of the Year Bank Street College of Education
Choices Cooperative Children's Book Center
School Library Journal Book Review Stars, June Cahners
Cochecho Readers' Award, Nominee New Hampshire
Keywords
friendship; Chinese Americans; Chinese/English; science project; nursery songs; helping with the baby; China's one baby policy
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Cheng, Andrea, "The Year of the Baby" (2013). Diverse Families. 803.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/803