Author(s): Marita Conlon-McKenna
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 224
Publisher: O'Brien Press Ltd
Language: English
Date Published: 2004-03-20
Dimensions: 130 x 192 x 18mm
Publication City/Country: Dublin, Ireland
Edition: 2nd edition
Illustrations:

Larch Hill is the only home Blue knows. She arrived there just a few days old, wrapped in a blue blanket. Her one hope is to find her mother or father and have a family of her own. Fostered out several times, Blue finds it difficult to fit in. Is there no one out there who really wants her? No one who can really love her?

Blue must put up with the orphanage, with the distant and strict care of the nuns. She does have her friends, Mary and Jessie and Molly and Lil, but they're not family. They're not enough.

In her heart, Blue is desperate to find out who she really is. The closed file in stern Sister Regina's office holds the secret of her identity. And that is forbidden territory ...