Part of The Baby-Sitters Club, book 33
First published 1990
Claudia Kishi knows she and her sister Janine are nothing alike. Claudia wears bright colors and bold jewelry while Janine dresses like a bookworm. Janine gets perfect grades because she's a genius. Claudia struggles to pull C's. One day Claudia flips through the family photo album looking for childhood pictures. She finds plenty of Janine as a baby but almost none of herself. This seems odd. Claudia decides to hunt for her birth certificate and the newspaper announcement from when she was born. She searches everywhere but comes up empty. The missing documents worry her. Why would her parents keep Janine's baby photos but not hers? Where did her birth records go? Claudia starts to wonder if her parents are hiding something important about her past. She begins to question everything she thought she knew about herself and her place in the Kishi family.
Genres: family, mystery, adolescence, adoption, realistic-fiction, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-secrets, identity
144 pages · Paperback · Scholastic Inc.