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Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a church-going black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn't say. Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn't really...
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Scribner
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c1999
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English
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After her mother commits suicide, pregnant Thumbelina, a 14-year-old, six-foot blonde is placed in a foster home. But a girl in a similar predicament convinces Thumbelina to run away and the novel describes them trying to make it on their own. A first novel.