cover image A Chance Child

A Chance Child

Jill Paton Walsh, Walsh Jill Paton. Farrar Straus Giroux, $7.95 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-374-41174-9

In PW 's words, ``Never has the author written with such impact as she does in this fact-fantasy, dedicated to real victims of the infant industrial revolutionlowercase per Web. . Not even Dickens portrayed abused children as Walsh does here.'' Ages 10-up. (Apr.)