A review by mizannie
Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson

3.0

There are a LOT of Jacqueline Wilson books on the BBC Top 200 list (thirteen?) & this, I feel, is one of her better ones. Over the years we’ve seen tragic news stories about young women abandoning their babies in school toilets or dumpsters; here Wilson imagines the life of one of those babies as a teen. What happens to these babies? What’s it like to always wonder why you’ve been abandoned? What’s it like to be in the foster care system? How do you come to accept that you will never have the so-called “ideal” family, and be able to value, even love, the family you end up with? I like to think young people will read this and come away with a bit more compassion for those who may be struggling with these issues.