What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Mother Carey's Chickens
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SOLVED. Childrens book: Single Mother with lots of kids slice of life. Audiobook late 1990s/early 2000s. [s]
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I would have listened to this audiobook on cassette tape from the library in the late 90s/early 2000s. Children's book. I remember it being similar to Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay, The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, and Little Women. I think the story takes place in England. I remember the family (I believe the mom is a single mother) and there are a whole bunch of children- like seven of them. The oldest daughter wishes she knew how to play the piano. There is a comment in the book like "she's always drumming her fingers on the table like a piano). This line is said to a new friend of the family, who is a wealthy younger man, whose parents ignore him or are dead. He buys the family a piano. I think there is something about an older brother who was off to war and comes home at the end of the story. I know this is a children's book. It is not fantasy. It felt like historical fiction at the time (but I was a kid at the time, so it might just have been a slightly older book).
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K. wrote: "I would have listened to this audiobook on cassette tape from the library in the late 90s/early 2000s. Children's book. I remember it being similar to Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay, The Dark is Ris..."I think that's it!
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https://books.google.com/books?id=16C...
There are different cover images.
Amazon's audiobook preview: https://www.amazon.com/Mother-Careys-...
K., should we mark this request as Solved?
Awesome, that was a wild guess. Happy it turned out to be the right one!
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