The Franklin Avenue Rookery for Wayward Babies is just one of the ten short stories in this book that Laura Newman gifts to readers everywhere. No two stories are alike, yet each will touch an emotion, creating a memory that I immediately wanted to share with my reading friends. So after reading the first story, I had to gift my friends their own copies so we could do a group read. Every one of the 6 of us would give this book 5 stars so that means it gets 30 stars!!!!

These short and quirky stories were a nice break from some of the heavier reading I have been doing and the perfect way to relax. The stories were just the right length to be able to read one at different intervals of my busy day.