New York: Beaufort Books, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (her first won the Pacific Northwest Award for a junior novel) With an instinct she doesn't quite understand, fourteen year old Tally fills the roll of mother to her older sister's baby - a coming of age novel for older children which "makes a simple and universal statement about life and living, and highlights the truth that age is never a measurement for responsibility." 156 pp. ISBN: 0-825300495.