The Outside Child

The main characters of the story are 13-year-old Jane and her male, 12-year-old friend, Plato. Jane's mother is dead and her father is away more of the time in his job as a marine-engineer.

Jane has been adopted by her two aunts who live together. While there, she discovers that she has a brother and a sister she had never been told about. Their mother apparently does not want Jane to ever see them or have anything to do with them.

Naturally, she begins to track down her siblings with Plato's help. She even finds out she has a grandmother she did not know about in the process. Through a series of events she finally gets to meet Anabelle and George, her younger sister and brother.

Their mother, Amy, is more than a few bricks shy of a full load. Not all thrusters firing.

Anabelle has a deformity and Jane thinks she is the one who caused it. The rest of the story deals with how she confronts that, tries to spend more time with her siblings, and deals with opposition the loony-toons mother and her own father.

Not a bad story, but not a great one, either.

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