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Dustbin Baby

By: Jacqueline Wilson
Narrated by: Tessa Peake-Jones
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About this listen

 April knows she was abandoned in a rubbish bin as a newborn baby, fourteen years ago. Now she's happily settled with her foster mother, Marion – but there's a part of April that's desperate to know where she really came from, and who she really is. If only she could remember her real mother – or even find her ... *Sensitive Content: Mentions of sexual violence, suicide*©2001 Jacqueline Wilson (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Fiction Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Literature & Fiction

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"Hugely popular with seven to ten year olds: [Wilson] should be prescribed for all cases of reading reluctance." (The Independent on Sunday)
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I like everything but overall i love the voices and I love the story and the characters

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I loved the story yet the voice didn’t really fit the story that well. It was a lovely story!

Dustbin baby.

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I very much think it’s good and you should read/listen to it it’s inspiring and I looove it

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I loved everything it was so heartfelt and wonderful but also it was very emotional and dark

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lovedved it watched film brilliant I can't see to good only had my babies read to me
and the lady who read the story brilliantly xxx thank you

I loved I did see the film but the book was brilli

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