He picked his way about the farm carts, the piles of whitish green cabbages, baskets of yellow corn, rows of plump, pale, plucked turkeys, orange pumpkins, country cheeses—big as a baby’s head. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rolls up his shirt sleeve, revealing the tattoo of my baby picture on his upper arm. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

That the baby screecher had a notched ear. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe that’s why the women were sad: the men left before they could make a baby. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a baby nearly every year, that woman. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It comes looking for me. Like that virgin I’m telling you about that couldn’t have a baby.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

‘But I delivered it. Have you ever delivered a baby?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"This one says I'm ten months and I finally look like a human. This one is less baby, more toddler, but it's pretty cute, if I do say so myself." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When the segment on the cockroach-eating baby begins, I go into the kitchen for a glass of water. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But the bone structure in a baby’s head is as chaotic as a busy road during peak hour. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

You could put in the day you got pregnant and it would figure out when you’re going to have the baby. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the widow’s baby got sick, the guardian still refused to turn over any of her money, though she pleaded for it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That first night, when the baby had finally fallen asleep in their laps, Mr. and Mrs. McCullough spent two hours flipping through the name dictionary. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Male Voice: How old is the baby, ma'am? Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One picture was of Mom in the hospital, cradling a newly born baby Laleh. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But they move the harvest scene of yellows and greens and blues from Arles and hang the baby’s almond tree in the most prominent place in their flat, above the piano in the drawing room. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Connor thinks everything’s impossible for him, and he’s all mad about it, so he tried to act like everything’s impossible for me, too. He’s being a big baby and feeling sorry for himself.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And a really bad song about love that had the word “baby” in it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

A beggar woman crying for money to bury her dead baby. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a good reason to want to fight the Nazis: in 1941, her baby was killed when a German bomb hit the maternity hospital where she’d just given birth. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Is it true about the baby? People say he is milk-white!” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he spoke, I saw teeth as small as a baby’s, as though he’d never gotten a second set. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew they were more expensive, too, that people paid almost $10,000 more in legal fees for babies who were white, so he knew that these girls’ adoptive parents had some money. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t see my baby sister again, this I knew. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A fierce and noble falcon right out of the wilds of White Man Mountain, and look at her—sweet as a baby.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was terrified thinking her heart had broken inside her over Joanna’s baby and that the blood was now leaving her heart and flowing from her body. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was if you were a baby and your mother was shuddering with cold. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Evil spirits, baby. Lord knows, plenty of those ramblin’ about, what with....Well, anyway, don’t you worry about it none,” Nana continued. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If only I had taken the baby that day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I was a baby, my mother worried that I would die from colic and hunger. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He needed to think, not bawl like a baby, but already his mind felt drunk and scattered. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It is nothing,” she said aloud; “why did I not discover before that it was nothing. Think of the time I have lost splashing about like a baby!” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more I look, the more shapes I see—faces, cars, flowers, trees, babies, clowns—and then, for some reason, I start imagining Lorena as a cheetah running through a forest. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it doesn’t matter what word we use; their baby is dead. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Better his precious baby Cora grow up with new parents who could give her everything she wanted than with a half-wit like him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He had two babies’ mothers, four kids, and his own mother to take care of. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I know that much. I was with her when her baby was taken away.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The baby squirrel smiled...and nodded...and sucked. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Katie sat in her rocker near the window, held her baby tightly and rocked. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

John walked into his parents’ bedroom and picked up the squalling baby, who was wet. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I threw a metal stapler at a baby,” he replied. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He looked past his pearl, and he saw that the swelling was going out of the baby’s shoulder, the poison was receding from its body. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

You took the baby but don’t let her die. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her brother, Mars—Dad and Papi let Sunnie choose the names, and I kid you not, she named the babies Mars and Jupiter—died when they were seventeen days old. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I clear my throat, looking past her at the small, helpless baby on the other side of the glass. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She said, I’m going to have a baby. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I still saw the print in my textbooks as a red blur, still saw my baby brothers spirit strung together by narrow lines of blood. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s full of pictures of Khalil, from the time he was a curly-haired baby up until a few weeks ago with friends I don’t recognize. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Jo took the baby and moved back to the Netherlands, to a town outside of Amsterdam. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I thought I’d lost the world when my house went up in flames, but Lord have mercy, that didn’t mean anything compared to when I thought I’d lost my sweet baby girl!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

All the stuff I read said that babies can’t form memories. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There’s still the baby in the toilet that someone’s going to have to deal with. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And the babies, do they keep them apart from the rest?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When word came that one of the babies had died, the whole island mourned. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

But here now are pretty flowered spring dresses, tweed coats and trousers, crocheted sweaters on fat babies. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Here is the baby with his new brothers and sisters. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The baby was a girl, born in the second month of the new year. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“My baby is facing the Robes. My son. And Ethyne—whom you cared for as a daughter! It will break her spirit.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Now, don’t that feel good, baby?” he crooned at her. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prams might be packed with four or five babies squalling away because the prams are old and the wheels bockety and the babies are rocked till they get sick and throw up their goody. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The hustle and bustle of all the children helped Emma with her grief over the death of her baby, and it distracted her from worry about her ill parents. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew my public sorrow, the lost baby, but none my private one, my loss of faith. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t mess with boy cousins, and don’t have babies until you’re grown.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean, baby?” my mom asks. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I would protect the dream baby, not let it suffer, not let it out of my sight. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our new baby was beautiful, a little lamb-child with a full head of dark hair and alert brown eyes—the fourth corner to our square. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her not having a boy baby was the only thing Grandpa ever threw up to her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Saw Leda hanging on to her raggedy baby doll. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lonogan had a white Persian named Fabian that she liked to dress in skirts and push around in a baby carriage. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“No! Please. I can’t leave her here. Don’t take my baby. Please, don’t take my baby!” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Loma, I’m sorry,” he said as he picked up the screaming baby. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She bark out that scary cough again and I get the baby aspirin and the cough syrup. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A new life to replace the old, fading ones was a blessing, and the new baby should have been a great comfort to Emma. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember reading of the Armstrong baby? This is the man who murdered little Daisy Armstrong—Cassetti.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to try to keep us from eating our babies alive or dropping them into dumpsters. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also had drawn a baby surrounded by ancient, gnarled trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her company would have made the escape more difficult, but Cora hadn’t been a baby. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The baby too, after what we go through. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, the baby is beautiful and well, and that's what counts." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Their house was total chaos, babies screaming all the time, diapers everywhere, dirty burp cloths thrown over the backs of couches and chairs. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The voyageurs watched from a distance as the baby crawled in a circle, whimpering and pitiful. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I’m sorry, baby. I would tell you if I knew, but Mellie never told me.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She nimbly tied a knot on the cord that had connected the baby to its mother’s blood, then quickly she bent and with her teeth she bit off the loose end. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We follow Baba past crying babies and toddlers, past mothers with bundles and bags. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They all went out except Chipo, who was too weak to stand, and one old woman. She got a handful of ashes to fill the baby’s mouth.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Never having babies, I mean. I guess this is a sign of hope, right?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t satisfied at all, of course, but at least his baby sister was no longer dangling from a tower. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The Spencers took turns going to school, the rest staying home to help their parents with chores and crops and the babies. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When the babies were clean and their bellies were full, we went back to the sleeping room with our grass mat. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to put you on Jeopardy!, baby!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“She helps with the babies now, but she used to work in the orphanage. Start with her. If anyone can answer your questions, she can.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The youngest Cooper —the baby—was all smiles. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he looked at the baby girl and saw that she was the image of himself, he stepped back, and said, “u zindzile,” which means, “You are well established.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have not seen them since I was a baby. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Or as normal as you can call it with a new baby.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

David said they were trying to make another baby. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Today, I have the pleasure of having his baby girl in the studio. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She warned me that my decision to have the baby would change my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

First, I’ve told him not to call me “Cath,” because it sounds too much like he’s calling me a baby cow, and second, why’s it such a surprise I have a friend next door? Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I comb my baby hairs into a swoop. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Empty baby bottles and opened boxes of mac ‘n’ cheese were surrounded by stuffed animals on the countertop. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

You’ve got just enough time to finish a few special touches, like eyebrows and a wisp of hair on top of the baby’s head. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I could hear the babies crying far off and voices calming them and Noris sobbing along with her aunt Mate, and all their grief pulled me back from mine. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, a few weeks later, she’d begun bleeding, and she knew even before they consulted the doctor that the baby was gone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was horrible to watch, like an oversized, balding baby, cowering on the floor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

My brother when he was a baby, my brother in my father’s arms, my brother with my sisters. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

No one could call Fern White Baby Lover even though Miss Patty Cake was a white baby and Fern loved her. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hard to imagine her legs once strong, the bones hard and parting water, clean sharp strokes, not bent and wrinkled like a baby, not drowning under the sticky yellow light. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will—I must— rise and plow the fields as soon as the baby comes out. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, baby, those records are so old. We’re going to have to take down this wallpaper because of the squares those things left on the walls.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The current one, she said, would disappear as soon as she had received another baby from the clinic. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you have to tell her something! It's dangerous for her not to know. She's not a baby anymore.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Beautiful Round Face was some other person, some other baby, not me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was being weak, or a baby, or a frightened turtle. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He had told Alma the day before she left that had God not killed the Grigori angels so many years ago, their baby would have lived. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I give him baby Tylenol, walk him up and down, and I take his temperature. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stevie’s saying exactly how I feel about you, my baby girl. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to remember the woman pulling off her wedding ring and pushing her baby forward, toward the armed guard. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Our middle grades’ entry,” Mrs. Grayson continued, “was written by Carolyn Malone. She wrote about the loss of her baby sister. Her essay is very brave.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sound of them crying and shushing the cries of Dante’s newborn baby boy at the same time is one I’ll never forget. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I know, it’s an expression. One I just made up. And babies sounds better, right?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Despite her tireless work finding homes for abandoned babies, Xan had a deep loathing for difficult things. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I saw the mother, sitting again, rocking her baby, huddling her other boy to her. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She said she was pregnant, and if the baby was a boy she was going to name it Harry after him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran her hands across her belly, imagining the shape of the baby inside, hoping to feel it move. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

You won’t see me have a baby, but maybe I will. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“She is a baby, and you sold her away from me.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She startled herself by how clearly she had articulated the desire to keep the baby and how right it felt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She saw some tiny drops of blood on the baby’s snowy pillow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just bit her lip, then looked at me and said, "I'm so sorry, baby." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The two of us have always been tight, in part thanks to an unwavering and somewhat inexplicable allegiance he seemed to feel for his baby sister right from the start. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They let those babies stay with them a good long time before pushing them out of the nest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A woman with a baby in her arms leans in the doorway of one room. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if the other children might have their noses out of joint a bit about the baby, but they all adore her. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

From the room behind him, John heard the baby begin to whimper. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Henry, Willow, the baby, Adam, who brought Fitzy, Kim, who brought a cousin visiting from New Jersey, plus a whole bunch of friends of my parents whom they had not seen in ages. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d better get back to that cow of yours,” she said, picking the baby up. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She in a big-girl bed now since the nursery getting fixed up for the new baby. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mami had strung a nugget of coral and an onyx bead on a safety pin and attached it to Raymond’s baby shirt at birth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The baby waved a fist in the air and wailed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Eh, well . . . Zeus insists on certain rules. Hands off, when there’s a human quest. Even when something really major is wrong. But nobody messes with my baby sister. Nobody!’ The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Annabeth, you shouldn’t have let Percy leave camp! But if you do get the Fleece—” “Yeah, baby!” somebody behind Chiron yelled. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

That was my baby sister’s first wedding dance.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

That she wanted to name her baby boy after the poet she copied in her letters. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then, out of Ts’ai Yen’s tent, which was apart from the others, the barbarians heard a woman’s voice singing, as if to her babies, a song so high and clear, it matched the flutes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For as long as Xan could remember, every year at about the same time, a mother from the Protectorate left her baby in the forest, presumably to die. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was no one to tell her about him, no one to share embarrassing stories about him that Birdie would love, or show her baby pictures of him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Amanda’s head pops up over the seat, her shirt hanging open so that I can see her bra, which is baby blue with yellow flowers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Kofun, ah, maybe fifteen hundred year ago. That would be about when giant tree there was just a baby.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He identifies them for me with a pointed finger: Lakshmi; Shakti, the mother goddess, in the form of Parvati; and Krishna, this time as a playful baby crawling on all fours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Arable found a baby’s nursing bottle and a rubber nipple. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Your mother will like that. We’ll bury the baby in the little cemetery near the aspen grove—where the tulips come up every spring.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Nearby, a woman sang a lullaby to a baby. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was the squeal of babies who had tackled one another too vigorously. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since Constantine had her daddy’s blood in her, her baby come out a high yellow. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mother, holding the two babies, seemed to glow with vitality. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bedroom she lay down with Akira clinging to her like a baby monkey—it felt like his arms were extra-long, wrapped all the way around her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I could tell my mother didn’t have time for a big baby. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I think of the mom with her baby, and if I never saw Dad or Mom or Javier again. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Juan Tomas went out among the neighbors to divert their suspicions, and he gave them theories and ideas of what had happened to Kino and to Juana and to the baby. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, Dad had a wife under sedation who couldn’t bring herself to see the massively deformed baby she’d just given birth to. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was of a plum brown baby girl swimming in a large bowl of pumpkin soup that seemed to be spilling out of the round frame. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

"Don't you have a date, baby?" she asked me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The baby in the first bottle had a large white head bent over a tiny curled-up body the size of a frog. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Two children that were hardly more than babies shared a blanket on the stone floor, and another was curled up in a pile of rags. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As long as they don’t come home with a disease or a baby, what’s the big deal? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Grandma Fatima stayed with us and took care of Maha, Mother, and the new baby while my brothers and I were finishing school. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Even with crazy, messy, annoying Iesha. It’s a little different, yeah, but if the good outweighs the bad, keep Hailey in your life, baby.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then grown-up birds confuse those plastic scraps with food and feed them to their chicks, and the babies die of starvation even though their parents are feeding them just like they should. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I heard people say, people say the tables are round and have white cloths over them and wee baby lampshades. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got my pants dirty for nothing? I crawled across the floor like a baby for nothing? I’m so stupid! I can’t believe they’re letting me go on.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I take out the mustard, shake it, lean down, and give it a good long shot right into that baby. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Trapis said as he put down one of the babies and picked up the other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Edward soon took on the job of matching mothers and babies. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning listening to Dodo Conway's baby carriage would drive me crazy. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Soon she would be getting taller, shedding her baby fat, and wanting to wear lipstick. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m proud of you, baby. You are so brave.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It was sad the way they were still babies of four and five years of age but so precocious about taking care of themselves. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the baby food jars filled with nuts and bolts in her father’s garage. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Alyce thought the midwife had more skills with herbs and syrups and spells than Will Russet, but Will delivered babies just as well and was much kinder to the mother. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby’s father was forbidden to see her, since she had not “healed” yet, and she spent some dark lonely hours along with the joyous ones with the baby. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beefy pulled on his father’s ear, and Talis cringed; the baby’s grip could be painful. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When she set the naked baby down by the side of the pile in order to get out of her own dress, the child immediately began crawling toward the midden on its own. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something that wouldn’t make me look like a baby. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Here is me, I was saying, and here also is my baby. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We now even had a couple of blankets, a leaky washtub and a baby’s crib. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day, she had scooped two babies up and held them both with one arm. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If people want to help you—as long as they aren’t doing anything to hurt you or your baby—listen to them. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in Pops’s stall, thinking about Agnes’s pregnancy and wondering how he would find the money to support the baby. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby, a boy, is born at five past five in the morning. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered when she would tell them about the baby. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You can come with us as well. But I think he needs to be in Phoenix. He’s my baby brother, Mom.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I moved her arm aside and gathered up the baby. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The main road was crowded; women with boxes on their heads and babies tied to their backs, barefoot children carrying bundles of clothes or yams or boxes, men dragging bicycles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I keep eating, but now the pie tastes dull and cold like baby food. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you looking at baby pictures of me?” she asked. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“My granddaddy’s been on that island since he was a baby,” said Lizzie, as quiet as the dark. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It was there before the baby,” she told them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see why they had to carry him like a baby. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Ira and Pork Chop were walking down Duval Street, pulling a wagon full of babies. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Galahad,” said Elaine, and she leaned over the wrappings, making the foolish gestures and meaningless sounds which mothers delight to use when their babies ate beginning to pay attention. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been saved for no good reason, and it was now too late to go back and save her babies. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the final dialogue with her husband, before he took her to the asylum, Celia talked about how the baby had no shadow, how the earth in its hunger had consumed it. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma’s putting up beans in jars, and all the while she hums to Shiloh like he’s a baby in a cradle, not a dog in a box. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to hug her, but I didn’t want everyone to think I was a baby. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just...She has all these baby pictures.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She had this peculiar smell like a baby that had done something in its pants. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He just said, ‘I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man.’” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone in my family tells me what a difficult baby I was compared to Olga. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Uncle Gherland,” Ethyne sighed happily, leaning into her sling to kiss the head of her baby. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Annie was no longer a baby; she was a real little person. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then late that fall, Farzana gave birth to a stillborn baby girl. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I started yelling at him. ‘You are going to refuse to take care of a baby? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Me and Veronica, my babysitter, were sitting on the bench outside the store with Jamie, my baby brother, who was sitting in his stroller facing us. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Aunt Aggie shook her head sadly, like she was thinking of all the poor little babies that didn’t make it just because they happened to come out the wrong color. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And I’m afraid that Claire and Matthew Fox will discover that the new, improved Jenna doesn’t add up to three babies at all and never did and everything they risked was for nothing. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I never cried much when I was a baby; Mom swears it’s true. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Guy was out cold again, baby Afro pressed all up against the window, mouth wide open. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He also thought that to feel secure and wanted in the family circle, a baby should be brought up at the side of its parents. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was carrying the baby they called Champ but today its presence seemed to offer him little comfort. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can’t dare say I loved the others less, but my first three were all babies at once, and motherhood dismayed me entirely. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be a baby, but instead, I was an adult who talked like one, a spooky man-child demanding more than his fair share of attention. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She delivered her baby while handcuffed to a bed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We all know you have been at the front Oh, you fine baby, what will I do while you are gone? A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She could see herself a child, rocking a baby in a cradle, rock, rock, rock; could see herself sick with the measles, walking the length of Cook’s trap line, in winter, shivering, eyes watering. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like I had to be a big boy all of a sudden because now I had a baby sister to look after. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Then she remembered: the trip in the cattle car, the long hungry days, the heat and the cold, the smell, the dead baby, the tattoo, the shorn hair. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not learning it all over again but for the first time, apparently, since Mother claims I did none of these things as a baby. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Uncle Antonio had left and Mamá had gone into the bedroom to nurse the baby, Lupita went over to Salvador, who was sitting in his chair. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“I feel such a baby, so helpless,” Inigo said, taking the next bite, chewing away. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The following afternoon he bought a baby grand piano. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“She gave up the baby in the first place,” Mrs. Richardson said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You never know when someone might steal your baby.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She also promised that she would not die without telling me first and saying goodbye the way baby elephant Boo’s mother did with him. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Drunk, you mean? You think my mother minds drunks? He’d be safe as a baby.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She came to Ifemelu’s flat with her baby in one hand, her BlackBerry in the other, and a house help trailing behind, holding a canvas bag full of bottles and bibs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’s not a baby, but he sure acts like it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you have a father? I know you doctors are getting pretty good at making test-tube babies, but the last I checked, it still took a mother and a father to make a baby.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clear vats shaped like cradles hold floating babies. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t think a man was ever happier to hold a baby than I was that day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my daughter were in heaven could she still watch the baby while I work in my manioc? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took this baby from my womb before it could be born. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tell someone they’re going to have a girl baby and they have a boy. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He could hear customers shouting orders, people haggling over prices, babies wailing for their mothers. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It isn’t easy for her to study at home; her baby sister, a spoiled little two-year-old, plays in her room all day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He put his hand on his hip and squealed in a lisping falsetto: “Oh, Mama! Will I have a baby if a man just kisses me? Will I, Mama? Will I?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he was a day old, the baby found and slew Hod. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The babies don’t think about the parents, and no jellyfish ever longs for another. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Or else he wants me to hold him, like I can rock a baby and write a paper at the same time! Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t believe him: women who are going to have babies have big fat stomachs, and my mother didn’t have one. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

You babies are so good, she said, so quiet. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did the baby’s pale complexion confirm his doubts? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After I graduated, my mother and father encouraged me to come home to Birmingham and live with them until the baby was born. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I have a picture of my dad holding a tiny baby me and only the top of his dark head is showing because every bit of his attention is on me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

None of Brave Orchid’s children was happy like the two real Chinese babies who died. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a leather bucket hanging from a nail so I went and brung it and the drinking gourd that was next to it over to where the woman with the baby was squatted down. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

‘Human bean babies and little chiddlers is spending half their time sleeping, so you is only four.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When did you do all this, baby? I was just gone an hour!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t hear of it, and within minutes the pretty golden baby was lying on his back in the center of my bed, laughing at me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound was like the cry of a small baby. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, when he declares he wants to kill Jo and the baby, Dries insists that Theo be admitted to a hospital. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They were pioneers in the field of infertility treatments, and were responsible for the first test-tube baby born in the United States. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Will you fish my dead baby out of that toilet bowl. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I mentally piece together a story: The baby is sick, and the soldier mustn't get too close or he’ll catch the illness. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And yet, it is not our question. For this here baby is unquestionably alive, and as such is nothing to do with us, and is no part of our world.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“He fell into a cook fire when he was a baby,” Hodza answered. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A musket cut down one of Sybil’s carpenters—he held a baby in his arms and they both crashed to the ground. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I have improved, baby. You do not know. But there are only the two things and my work.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I wished for my own baby brother to be hospitalized just so I wouldn’t have to play some one-sided Chutes and Ladders games. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She peered like an owl from the hole in the mountain, and the baby slept under the blanket on her back, his face turned sideways against her neck and shoulder. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing the new mother looked for in her baby girl was the navel, which she was relieved to see. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Jesus came and took the baby with him far away. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t really have twelve fingers, just baby skin that looked like it wanted to grow. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She grows from baby to mother to old woman and then turns into a baby again, and on and on she goes, living a thousand, thousand lives. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes and let my fingers rest on the baby’s lids and held them there as Nicasia continued her foreign prayer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My mother sat next to me, holding baby Andrew. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When she got done with her Verse, she went way down in the jungle to turn that baby owl loose, and we thought she never would come back. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Poor baby. She was in that truck for days. Mack bought her from a circus, the same way he bought me, but she hadn’t been there long. She was born in the wild, like us.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Its tail wasn’t flipping up and down the way the dolphin’s had, or even the baby porpoise’s. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother had vowed she wasn’t going to have another baby in our summer house, because the facilities were so primitive. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere up front a baby began to scream. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The baby murmured and fussed in the bright cloth tying him to his mother’s chest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Probably just too old. Most people want babies. Or girls.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Lydia had her baby carrots, pita chips, hummus, and Greek yogurt. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Hold the light,” the doctor said, and when the servant held the lantern high, the doctor looked for a moment at the wound on the baby’s shoulder. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But this photo,” Mrs. Richardson said, “was sold after Pauline’s death. By someone else. It was a photo of a woman holding a baby. Virgin and Child #1, it was called.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The baby is alive and it’s a girl!” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We talked a lot about what you were like as a baby. She said you were very precocious, especially in toilet training and speech.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The babies would always choose the cloth mother, even if it meant they didn’t have any nourishment to live on. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The owl was a baby that couldn’t fly right when we found it, so Leah made it a cage and fed it bugs and some meat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Beefy is incredibly powerful for a baby. Maybe even destined for the Guard,” said the Gran. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

To start with: What was the first baby’s name? Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As I watched him work I thought about how I took care of him in our Carcachita when he was a baby while Papá, Mamá, and Roberto picked cotton. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I got the words from a movie or what, but they were there: “I’m the answer to your dreams, baby.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

There were babies in strollers and old ladies in wheelchairs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The older one might marry the baby in the stroller, who’s trying to jam his straw into his juice box. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Meg looked worn and nervous, the babies absorbed every minute of her time, the house was neglected, and Kitty, the cook, who took life ‘aisy’, kept him on short commons. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not going to take my babies,” she said to Dorothy, struggling against the changes that had been set in motion by Langley’s letter, but which had roots much deeper than that. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They'd called him that since he was a baby; she couldn't remember why. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Anyway, what I was doing was swaying about slowly in time to the song, holding an imaginary baby to my breast. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His baby clambers over his sleeping mother to join in, crawling right over Otto’s face to get closer to me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The baby doll’s white skin had been painted the color of midnight, with thick cherry-red lipstick smeared over its small mouth. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The baby had spent weeks with this man, but he already preferred to be with me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how old it was, I never did, with babies—for all I knew it could talk a blue streak and had twenty teeth behind its pursed, pink lips. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He can't be allowed to see that there's no baby in the carriage. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Just a big old baby,” campus security officer Carlitta Collins says. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For a moment he clung to O’Brien like a baby, curiously comforted by the heavy arm round his shoulders. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I can imagine if it was my baby,” she said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Not even now that I have my baby. The love of a mother is something you cannot replace with anything else.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

This was true before they came for her baby, before the Tower—one measure of wheat would become two; fabric worn thin as paper would become thick and luxurious in her hands. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“You just said ‘babies,’” he says, presenting this clue back to George. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My baby brother who always takes care of me. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What with babies popping out all over, toys are getting to be big business.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would finally have a baby brother or sister. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, you guys are forever telling me I baby her, aren’t you? So maybe this is a lesson she needs to learn—that I can’t be in two places at once!” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He looked more like a baby than ever with his bewildered blue eyes and the fairness of his skin made more noticeable because of the clear red blood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His family was him, my mom, and the new baby. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They spent the afternoon together, Mal and Pauline cooing over the baby, and Mia spending the night, for the first and last time, in their guest room with Pearl beside her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stacked on a bench were boxes and boxes of baby food jars packed full of a brownish paste. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She had her a baby girl with the colic and the only thing that stopped the hurting was to hold her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My baby, my precious baby, I’m so sorry. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A black-haired baby was zooming in and out of the picture on a tiny broom, roaring with laughter, and a pair of legs that must have belonged to James was chasing after him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I want to express my sincere gratitude for this great honor you have conferred on me by selecting me your Miss University for the coming year— The baby starts crying again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Joe, there’s a whole family of baby mice in a drawer in the first bedroom. You can get rid of them and set all those traps you brought.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It had grown now, and on the outskirts the hurrying newcomers were being softly informed how the baby had been stung by a scorpion, how the father and mother were taking it to the doctor. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Can we peek?" one woman asks, and Mina stops so they can coo at the sleeping baby. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She says this baby is the spitting image of our sister who died, with his wavy black hair, his lovely blue eyes, and the gorgeous eyebrows. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But we listened for the one who would say, “Poor little girl,” or, “Poor baby,” but there was only head-wagging where those words should have been. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s so soon...The baby’s only a few weeks old.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Polly had never been so close to a woman who was about to have a baby, and she was more than a little frightened. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven patted her lap, and the big baby climbed up her legs and leaned his head on her chest. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lynnie and Amber would think I was being a baby if I was worried about a stuffed animal. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“A sweater suit for a seven months’ old baby.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the hut, with the baby balanced on my hips, I watch the mother squat next to the rows of vegetables and proceed to pull the weeds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mina bends over to adjust the baby's blankets again. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

That was when he remembered the baby sparrows. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Her father had died in Afghanistan when she was still a baby. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I got the ball and drove down the middle, tossing up a baby hook over the front rim and in. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

When Grant was a baby, his mother’s friends were shocked to see that Hannah Grant allowed her son to crawl between their horses’ feet! Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad, I’m not a baby anymore! You don’t have to lie to me all the time!” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The baby had been cleaned off, his bulbous lids shut tight to the world. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“My poor child. You can’t be certain. It’s more than probable that your baby will be fine and healthy. Will you promise me not to try any more tricks?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we’re done, Amá sweeps them up and flushes them down the toilet, in case some of them still have babies inside them. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Them Easterners are pretty clever. I thought I’d go up and find out. Didn’t his wife just have a baby?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slowly slid out from under her legs and scooped her up in my arms like a baby. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I made a present for the baby,” Malcolm said, “and I asked Sister Fenella if I could give it to her.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“My Uncle Clyde and Auntie Nina are staying with us for a while. My cousins Kay, Bernice, and their baby brother, Allen, too.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, another inmate had gone after the baby sparrow—it almost hopped onto his finger, but then got spooked and went fluttering into somebody’s cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slaughtered lambs, skinned and transparent as baby flesh, hung evenly on rusted hooks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’ll be allowed to nurse the baby, for a few months, they believe in mother’s milk. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ona finally agreed to drop the baby down the bathroom hole. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And instead of taking the bag from me, Mina kisses Regina on her forehead, whispers something I can't hear, and hands the blond woman the baby. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mother came to my bed one night bringing my three- week-old baby. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly. It’s like, not enough redheads are having babies with other redheads. So we’re just not being born anymore.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, she’s being a real baby. They only went out for like a week.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s slow and late night and American, and there’s a bit that keeps coming round when Judy sings: “Never let me go...Oh baby, baby...Never let me go...” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had your baby picture out, too, the one they took in the hospital. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I saw many pictures of you as a baby. Did you know that?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She shucked off her shoes as she ran and, holding the baby under one arm, tore off its shirt. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it’s their baby’s nursery, the room with the soft pink blind. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small hands reached up from within, and the woman went to the cradle and lifted out a baby. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Fix breakfast and feed the babies. Don’t think you’re going to sneak off to the bushes today, my girl!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fern was a sweet, round-faced baby, content with even the most inexpert of baby-handlers. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mom explained that it was because of some medicine she was taking when I was in her tummy, before she knew she was going to have another baby. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Her mother, who’d wept half the night, was still in bed nursing the baby, so Lupita awakened Salvador and told him that food was ready. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they got away—I don’t know. I stayed to find my husband and bury my baby.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I'd stop and look so hard I never forgot it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His bottom was lifted in the air, a habit he’d had as a baby and that still came back sometimes when he was very tired. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Valerie offered to hold the baby when the waters got too rough. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“So one can only logically conclude”—tap, tap, tap—“that Captain Underpants is not for babies.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Some of those babies in the jars that Buddy Willard showed me had gills, he said. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Through the like-line. You know. Where your belly button is. That is where the like-line grows from and pumps the blood to the baby.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This ward is for mothers and their babies,” she said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“They clean and they cook and they make babies and they all live in a big dormitory outside of town where they can’t interfere in men’s business.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“But I never betrayed my husband. I was with him every night. This is our baby.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He told a tale about how one old range hog had caught him when he was a baby and his folks got there just barely in time to save him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a photo album spread open on the bed, filled with pictures of us when we were babies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We line up by height, smallest to tallest, some of us still holding babies. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There, there, baby,” she says, patting Daddy’s massive hand. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

If you could call the sounds he made reading—more like a baby oogglie googling really. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Like she should’ve never left when she was a baby. And I wonder sometimes what it would’ve been like if she and her moms stayed...if we stuck together like family.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The hole’s so small I can hardly imagine how a man could get in there, much less how a baby could come out. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I thought about the baby that everybody wanted dead, and saw it very clearly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had given Charlie her engagement ring, which was a family heirloom, but remodeling the baby’s room meant he was also broke. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Bill was the first to make that move, with Tomi and their baby boy. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t tell me not to listen at the door, however, so I knew trying to make a baby was hard work that required a lot of effort and grunting. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was one thing to imitate parrots for Simon or to speak to a baby. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s one about an eagle carries a baby away.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know how many babies just one of these meadow mice have in a year?” he demanded. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She handed the baby to a servant and then began to give instructions to the many people who still crowded around her. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Tomoko has been taking care of us since I was a baby. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then he raised both, shield and baby, above his head. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

George married an American, and they had a baby whom they named Gwen. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I took that pink, screaming baby in my arms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Byron was grinning like a giant, bald-headed kindergarten baby. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that one spark of triumph faded when Mr. Bates, his voice cracking with anger, bellowed, “So we just gonna let them do this to us, burn our homes, scare our babies?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He captures snowflakes, tadpoles, hibernating frogs; he coaxes bread from bakers with none to sell; he regularly appears in the kitchen with fresh milk for the babies. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’s curled up in a capsule like an unborn baby. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Even worse,I was a girl child—and a spotted one at that, because I was born with a skin condition called vitiligo, which caused me to look like a baby leopard. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men and women smuggled liquor in baby carriages with babies perched above the hidden goods. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I loved her and I just thought of her as my baby sister. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It fit into my palm, and I saw that it was a jungle bird, a baby macaw. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them in his mouth like a jujube. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We thought only of this overwhelming hatred for the unborn baby. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I kept reading about shark embryos that snack on their lesser sisters and eventually devour other siblings in the womb until the fittest shark remains and the mother gives birth to only one baby. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Nesting instincts. Here’s the nest. And here’s where the baby goes.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right. But you see I’ve never had a baby and I’ve never even loved any one. And I’ve tried to be the way you wanted and then you talk about ‘always.’” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Neewo means “fourth” and that was what they called the baby, but soon, Grandma said, the baby would have to have a name. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The others in the line with him are mostly women with babies, little children, old men—and cripples. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Not enough,” he said, and hobbled away as fast as he could, clutching the container, his wife and baby following. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

How delectable it was to think of this baby, her baby, their baby. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You have principles and you don’t want to compromise them—but I’m begging you, Richard. There’s got to be something you can do....I mean...the baby...” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“She’ll have no place to go with the baby and mother.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear that baby fussing from half a league away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s natural for a woman to put on a little weight after she’s had a baby,” said Sissy with a straight face. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to hold and feed her baby. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My sister was also the one who laughed when I immediately asked her where babies go to. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I love you, baby girl, you know that?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“To pretend that this baby is just a baby—to pretend like there’s no race issue here—is disingenuous,” Dr. Wong had snapped, while Serena fidgeted at the edge of the shot. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I kept telling myself that she was safe and that she would return to me once she’d had the baby, maybe sooner. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He said to Lyra, “I suppose you’re just waking up, are you? It’s all right for some. It’s a nice life being a baby.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We sat in the cellar for a week, listening to the Russians arrive and to the babies cry and to gunfire that went from the rooftops to the streets. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I did not know if the baby was making me sick or if your grandfather was. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She clutched her own baby tighter as Claire answered her horrified questions. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I scrolled down until I saw it—the most precious little angel baby face I’d ever seen in my entire life.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I could understand it if he was surprised at first, ain’t no one gonna expect to get throwed up on by a baby boy in a girl’s dress and bonnet. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He took the child’s hand and said, “You’re my baby girl. My little sweetheart.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is tiny and pretty and smells like baby’s skin. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those babies cost five thousand dollars a pop,” Harris said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A baby should always be put to sleep on her back—until it is decreed that she should only be put to sleep on her stomach. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s the shingaling, baby!” she said, which made us both smile. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Hazel had been sweet on his bisabuelo, a guy who had died when Leo was a baby. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Then that’s it, case closed,” I said, shrugging, and I sat in her lap like I was a baby. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I did, and the first thing, I saw a little baby angel. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the nearest thing to hand—a jeweled cup big enough to bathe a baby in— and turned, and squeezed into the flaw in the rock. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked in a tiny voice that sounded like a baby. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

My mind did the totaling and, counting the baby, there were six of them! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She stood beaming under a dull gray sky, tears streaming down her cheeks, the needle-cold wind blowing her hair, and clutching that baby in her arms like she never wanted to let go. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time I felt so small next to my baby sister. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

My baby sister’s screams only seemed to get louder. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Hunter slipped his hand under the baby’s blanket to see if its heart was going. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He talked to me like I was a baby and he winked at Mrs Mooney. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The animals outside regarded these with great interest and some of them tried to make the babies laugh by thrusting their paws or their tails in through the bars. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“But you lied to us! Being afraid of ticks is a lame reason to stay out of the woods! I just thought you were treating us like babies.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Around them, adults wrestled with babies and strollers, while older children stood around waiting. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

A pregnant Fifi would have to do what is always done in such cases on the Island—marry immediately and brace herself for the gossip when her "premature baby" comes out fat and fully grown. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He wanted to ask why she had gone along with it if she did not want the baby. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her eyes darkened as though her pupils had engulfed her irises, and Sarai felt it coming, the response that brooked no comeback: Tell that to the other babies. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But Evan didn't want her, because he thought she was a baby and she was going to embarrass him in Mrs. Overton's class. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

By the week’s end the baby had recuperated, but Bibi was not asked to return downstairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The baby, wearing a soggy-looking droopy diaper, was calling, “Mommy . . . mommy . . .” And another kid was howling somewhere in the apartment. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven didn’t want to look like a giant baby, but the truth was, she was frightened of her own shadow right now. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But there’s no use even asking him. He’s not going to leave Zella. She’s going to have a baby pretty soon.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dresses and shawls were scattered around, and there was a bag of what looked like medicines, several dozen jewelry cases, a sackful of milk powder, even a small chest of baby toys. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hidden in the ferns, Matthias and the baby squirrel held their breath in disbelief. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Nestled in a scrap of purple velvet was a tiny jar of Mariam’s baby teeth. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Still the babies would not take the food, and at last, tired of playing with it, swam over and began to nuzzle him. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Molly fingers the never-used baby blanket, its basket- weave design still vivid, the stitches intricately pristine. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dad sometimes joked that the hospital where I was born must have accidentally swapped babies because I look nothing like the rest of my family. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the creature’s fearsome appearance, he was soft as potting clay where the baby was concerned. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need me. And you don’t need to keep running. You’ll be fine. You and your baby will be fine.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would go mad with terror, he would be like a baby. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been looking for someone to carry a baby for us. The right person.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The baby swung his legs and cooed happily as he was strapped in. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“She has support right now,” he said as he led us away, nodding to the older woman rocking Mama back and forth like a baby. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Limbo is packed with little black babies flying around and crying for their mothers because they’ll never be admitted to the ineffable presence of Our Lord and the glorious company of saints, martyrs, virgins. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, a baby—and I was its mother.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I braced myself to answer their questions about the baby, but no one asked me anything. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"I can ditch it if you want, baby," I joked. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Whenever we rounded a corner, she would try to make a shield out of her body to protect the babies from what she felt sure would be mutilation or death. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

No one took your baby, they told her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh, we took in dozens and dozens of babies!” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The others had tea in the living room, waiting for Dad’s return, and Mum had to bring the mug up to Aunt Gloria’s lips to get her to drink as if she was a baby. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the baby was a month old, we gave him a name and shaved his head. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That I already have posterity. I was once a baby and now I am an old woman. That is posterity.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Whenever Parslow came into the room, baby Charles would stretch out his arms to be picked up. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But look how skinny she is. There’s no baby in that belly, see?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby screecher’s eyes were huge with fear. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Did he say why he wanted to know about the nuns and the baby?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“But he’s only a baby yet and they will grow,” Michael said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

As I lift my baby from her limp arms, they fall open in her lap, palms facing upward. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Through a big glass window, he sees his sister asleep, lying in a small glass bed, the only one of the babies in the nursery to have a thick head of black hair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t understand you. He’s only a baby!” the mother pleaded. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

People were fashioning makeshift gurneys from baby carriages and trunks nailed to roller skates, pulling them themselves. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby starts to cry, a thin, piercing wail, but the sound provides enough cover that I can mutter instructions to Mirjam. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

People crowded around me, trying to pat the baby who had caused all this excitement—although he was no beauty, with puckered face and mouth opened wide to emit shriek after shriek. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the baby Jesus,” I said, bowing my head piously and lifting one of the bonobo’s arms so he made the sign of the cross. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Mr. Fontanel died when she was a baby. I never even met him.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here are Mr. and Mrs. Roodveldt, I presume, cradling a baby in a white dress, behind a table with a cake on it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As we drive out of town, the sky is the saccharine blue of a baby blanket, filled with puffy cottonball clouds. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But I did stay in the room with her while she went through the rest of the baby clothes. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And then an expectant mother, counting the days until her baby came. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We talked about making baby food and finding day care. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lena dips a baby carrot into her hummus and takes a loud bite. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The frame contained a picture of a woman in profile, her head bent toward a little girl who sat in a high chair with a smudge of baby food on the side of her mouth. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of 'em told him that fancy restaurants paid lots of money for this baby lettuce, smaller than the regular kind, to use in rich folks' salads. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

May Castellan kissed her baby and handed the bundle to Hermes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I seen plenty a womens get the baby blues after they done birthing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All around me, a sea of people wake: babies cry, old people groan, pots and pans clang against the sides of wagons whose wheels grind the dirt beneath them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On those nights, the baby cried and cried, while Harriet slept. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I went to war because I was sent there. I saved lives. I didn’t kill babies.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He checked on Evan, squeezing Ivy’s baby brother’s tiny hand, before sitting down on the edge of his bed. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mothers with infants have no baby clothes, no buggies, and very little cow’s milk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The mother tiger and the other baby must have caught the cub’s scent, because suddenly they came out into the open. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it had happened at homecoming while Grace was squeezing a baby out of her body and he danced, wearing a cheap plastic crown. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There were the moments she lost her babies. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A baby!” cried the police captain as Sekai began to cry again. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I am baby to cry. All for the best, whatever happen.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could you actually say that the baby died, since it had never breathed? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“They sounded just like little babies,” he said. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how to hold a baby.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kiki whirls and yells at Noah and Jax what I now know is the worst insult: “You are all such babies!” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Theo is worried about his own health, as well as the baby’s. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Without the baby coming back right here when he’s healthy and taking to the sky to show his dad, “I’m okay. I’m okay.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At forty-eight, she was quite old to be having a baby in the medically perilous nine-teenth century. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew the white men bragged about the efficiency of the massacres, where they killed women and babies, and strangled their futures in the crib. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Their obstetrician suspects the baby suffered from chromosomal damage. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He bought toys for their children; he once watched a woman use her baby’s bib to sop up the blood of a teenaged drug dealer who was shot to death in front of Venkatesh. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was getting feathers but mostly it still had white baby hair and was tame. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was that God with the huge lap smelling of baby powder? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sam was covered with bruiselike marks on his backside, the way Japanese babies sometimes are. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the evidence of ears, chin, and cheekbones I might be a baby Kafka. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They had tried so long, she and her husband, for a baby. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She starts telling him about the baby goshawk and how I won’t keep her after all the trouble she has gone to. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Keen draws a picture of an egg with a baby chick inside it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The baby weighed only four pounds three ounces and had to be kept in an incubator for a week. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was no one else but us at Congo, so we could watch the gorillas for as long as we wanted, without anybody or their baby pushing in front of us. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

For starters, Edna is going to be someone’s buddy again, which is like pairing a baby mouse with a boa constrictor. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I tried to follow her breath, my eyes closed so that I wouldn’t have to look at the baby’s empty face. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Like when she says “baby,” it’s as if molasses seeped into the word and breaks it down into more syllables than it needs. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Hazel? Hazel? It’s all right. It’s me, Stella. Don’t be scared, baby girl. I’ll take you to your mama.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Oh, our sweet baby, we are coming home to you. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That fall in the false warmth of a Brooklyn Indian summer, Katie sat on the stoop and held her sickly baby against the bigness which was another child soon to be born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma gives her this sugary sweet smile and says, “That’s all right, baby. Just sit your pretty self down.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I cried like a baby when I—” “No. I mean what did you call her?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They live in Tarrytown, New York—an easy commute for Brady into the city—and the two of them have a baby now, a girl. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two babies was a bountiful gift from the gods. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Trina's baby boy was taken away from her and placed in foster care. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

What kind of life can you have when you live with your parents and have a baby to take care of? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They farmed and built a house and brought a series of older and older children from the audience into the imaginary home, and then more babies for grandchildren. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he and Ernie left home, was Ma going to start calling popcorn her babies? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Okay, big baby, I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you. They’d been camping sort of by Yellowstone for a week and were supposed to set up at Rock Creek. They even pulled in there that afternoon.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

After a while, Tag untangled himself and began a wrestling game with another baby. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to hear what he’d say about the baby. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Ayanna accepted it and cradled it like a mother would a baby. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Dad said she wasnt sick or nothing but she went to the hospital to bring me back a baby sister or a brother. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If you were that little baby’s father, would you be able to send another one off to live all by herself, same as the first?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was a good feeling, this warmth, and it made the rock soft like the coat of a baby llama. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I was only two years old when I left Cuba but I remember everything that’s happened to me since I was a baby, even word-for- word conversations. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She clung to the ceiling beams with one arm and one leg, while holding a baby tightly against her breast with the other arm. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“All gods. What god would not be furious at a mother who kept such babies? I think the whole village would be flooded or mostly everyone would die, if a mother kept her báza!’ The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just other workers, mostly women with fachalinas folded on their heads to keep off the sun, some with babies strapped to their backs, all bent over, faces close to the earth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hizdahr took her by the shoulders as tenderly as if she were a baby bird. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re such a fool. I must have dropped you on your head when you were a baby.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

People walk their own dogs after work, he tells me, except for one guy who works late and one lady who just had a baby. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I usually love when they talk about when I was a baby. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When Jeer could no longer work she looked after babies when their mothers were in the fields. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Judge was pushing a pretty little blueeyed baby in a stroller.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As her mother turned around and glared at them from the front seat, Hannah patted Aaron’s hand and whispered, “Don’t be such a baby, Ron-ron. The Four Questions aren’t that hard.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, after the nurse arrived and the baby fed at her breast and fell asleep, Olanna and Odenigbo looked down at her, lying face up in the cot near their bed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since he was nearly hairless, he looked almost like a real human baby. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I just mean the baby is only a few weeks away. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her breath was warm and soft, and she smelled like baby powder and sunshine. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even a baby—you can tell from when they cry. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t expect my mother to have the baby,” she explained. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother began to bump into things, into table edges as if she forgot her stomach contained a baby, as if she were headed for trouble instead. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is it, baby girl! This is your chance!” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m talking about not being an angel baby anymore. I’m talking about taking care of Number One for a change.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Mrs. Bannister held the cup to my lips, I fanned the hot milk out on my tongue as it went down, tasting it luxuriously, the way a baby tastes its mother. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But Captain Underpants was for babies, and I wasn’t a baby. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Try it, honey. Let’s hear the sound of the baby pianny,” said Hannah, who always took a share in the family joys and sorrows. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My baby girl. That’s my baby girl. My baby girl. My baby girl. My baby girl.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not this baby or a baby but my baby. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes, ignoring the forms from the hospital about filing for a birth certificate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sweating in the equatorial sun, some of the researchers admiringly fingered the plump, pendulous green fruit, each the size of a baby’s head, wrapped in clusters around the trees’ sturdy trunks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She looks about thirteen, so small and bony, I can’t imagine that baby coming out of her. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Zed, who had been studying me with the same look that I see in the neighbor’s cat’s eyes when she watches baby birds learning to fly. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground is littered with torn food packages, babies’ diapers, empty water bottles and spent cigarettes, dirty tissues, plastic bags. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He said he wanted to buy stuff for a baby?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The raccoon babies, You, You, and You, were next. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“No, dear, I don’t expect so, not really. All babies do that sort of thing. It’s part of how they learn.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Charlie has no business having a baby when he’s just a baby himself. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Vervet monkeys cavorted as much as their larger cousins, and the babies of both species occasionally joined in play. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right,” she cried, “you’re a spoiled baby! I let you out of your promise. Go ahead and ask him.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No texting at the table, baby,” Wanda said, passing the bowl to her right. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She had thought that it might please Grandpa Will as much as the new baby had. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A naked baby clung to a woman, both asleep. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After a whole day of wrangling the babies and thinking disgruntled thoughts about those pennies, I launched a new campaign at dinner that night. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Help me think of a name,” I suggested, using the baby to distract them from a silly argument. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man’s hose, a robe, a baby’s pinafore, all thin as a spider’s web. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Even though I agreed to have the baby, I still wasn’t sure until Charlie took the job with my father.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The truth of the matter was, the baby looked very much like a mouse in every way. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then he sat down miserably on the floor and put his arms around his knees and rocked back and forth like a baby, back and forth, back and forth and back. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth May just had a little tiny cup, which I knew she would resent because it made her seem more of a baby. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess had been four; Emma, two; and Finn, only a baby. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I jump at the outburst of baby bird chirps above our heads. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But now, with a baby crying in her arms, her breasts swollen with milk, her body coated with sweat, her groin still so sore she can scarcely sit, it is all suddenly unbearable. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The babies lay curled on Estella’s chest, their small bottoms rising and falling with her breath. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had no interest in babies or the concept of motherhood. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It got to the point where I'd see a baby in the bakery or grocery store and instinctively ball up my fists, jealous over how easy he had it. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Once he had asked Elizabeth—they had been married a long while, Roy was a baby, and she was big with Sarah—if she had truly repented of her sin. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“No, the boy and the little girl are Minerva’s, and the baby girl is Maria Teresa’s.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was soft and smelled like rain and baby powder. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I fill it up with corn flakes, five slices of bologna, one slice of cheese, and a handful of baby carrots. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We tried for three days to sneak Onas baby out, but the guard stood near whenever the doors were open. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then I thought about the bonobos back at the sanctuary, the mothers with their wide-eyed, bald babies wrapped around their bellies, and hoped that by some miracle they, too, were okay. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a low and deadly hiss, she said, “I should have saved a different baby.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She may think her life is too unstable or unhappy, or she may think that her drinking or drug use will damage the baby’s health. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He swung the baby bonobo up into his arms and greeted me in Lingala, not the French that Congo’s educated classes use. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They’d just recently started saying things to me, different things, some of which included the words “sweet” and “baby.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was exhausting remembering his manners when talking to all those people, but Angie smiled and chatted as if she didn’t mind seeing the same baby over and over in two dozen pictures. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I go rigid, smiling thinly, as I eye her baby bump and try to subtly move away from it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I won’t kiss you if you don’t want. I’ll send your English girl. Good-by, baby. The cognac is under the bed. Get well soon.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I heard them say it was important for the baby to be quiet. If she cried, everyone would know she existed. They couldn’t pretend she was stillborn.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I acted like this back in Raleigh, Mama would say, “Quit that baby whining before I jerk a knot in you.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Five days after receiving the letter from Wallace, on June 23, baby Charles got sick with a fever. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He needs to spend time with his family. I hear the wife has a new baby.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After baby Rosa gets a fresh diaper, she falls asleep and Gladys takes Mami, Baba, and me to her room so we can see how pretty it is. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“You were just babies in the war—like the ones upstairs!” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home the baby is developing a real personality, she writes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The baby let out a noise that sounded like a squirrel’s squeak. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Then another baby spider crawled to the top of the fence, stood on its head, made a balloon, and sailed away. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

It never happened again as far as I know—the street sittings—but quiet as it’s kept she did try to steal that baby although there is no way to prove it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Baby, baby, baby,” he says, “you my kind of woman.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Then why in the heck are you drinking? You know you can’t hold no baby with a pint of whiskey in you.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I will organize some water,” she said, leaving the filthy baby in Hannah’s filthy arms. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cares for the babies at times, but has laid down the law at diapers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Massa like to die hisself—couldn’t eat nor sleep. He wouldn’t even look at that baby. Paid no ’tention at all to that chile till he be ’bout six year old. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never held a baby in her arms before. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lady with the baby in her arms just sneaked out a door. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“All’s I gotta do is mow his lawn once a week and I can hang out with the baby as much as I want.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Karaoke, baby!” she shouts, and the others all shout along with her. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The second time, it was the baby crying downstairs, the girl’s shushing, the clatter of spoon against milk bottle. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She also found out that Mrs. DiAngelo would have a baby girl in December. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

My mother looked down on me for the first time and saw the large tumor that had robbed her of a baby’s perfection. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

So he had lingered in the cabin, looking down at his wife and the newborn baby. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was a baby, I tried to talk to Laleh in Farsi too. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Besides, babies were expensive and we needed to save. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her that prophecies can be broken — I told her the whole logic of prophecies is questionable— ALBUS: In twenty-four hours’ time Voldemort curses himself trying to kill the baby Harry Potter. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Papa was crying, too, as he carried Jaja in his arms like a baby all the way to the car. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the Bronx, a fire consumed a straight-A student and her baby brother, asleep in his crib. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demon never found the baby, though he searched for years and years. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She said, so quiet that I was the only one who could hear it, “OK, baby, OK. I know, sweetheart, I know.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He wrote about his babies, his experiments on them, and on his screaming sons. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In June 1877, he and Emma, along with Frank, Bernard, and the baby’s nursemaid, made a pilgrimage to the great prehistoric monument Stonehenge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Morales is going to think I’m a total baby! The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When baby turtles come out of their shells, which are round—about the same size as a golf ball—they are squinched up into a round shape that fits inside the eggs. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Remaining was a six-month-old baby, who was now brought to the Trepids’ room by their assistant, Morgan, a frail elderly woman. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

What about a little motor attached to the cradles to rock the babies to sleep? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The old one was learning the young ones about babies. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would have never hurt the baby,” he sobbed. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Sissy brought the baby home ten days later. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother is handing me a baby doll. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He knew that white baby girls were first-ranked on most people’s list of Children We Would Like to Have One Day. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She turned to go, and that was when she saw that the baby was no longer in the store. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had done what he did for love and loyalty, yet he had carried her into a place no living man should go and fed her baby to the darkness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If he proposed a little amusement at home, “No, it would disturb the babies.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mind your business. And my name is not baby,” I tell him, and turn to Lorena. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Often the baby has a deeply cloven skull. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

People said terrible things to my father, like “Why keep a wife who bears dead babies?” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Juana carried Coyotito on her back, covered and held in by her head shawl, and the baby slept, cheek turned sideways against her shoulder. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who wants to be treated like a baby? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There we stood on the train platform amidst the chaos, me in my flowered nightgown and my brother in a baby blue summer coat that nearly touched the ground. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Have you thought about taking a walk? There’s a bird nest in the big oak out back, and if you’re really quiet you can hear the babies chirping. It’s finally starting to get warm.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Probably sick of hearing Aunt Heidi talking about babies, which I bet you she does a lot. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

What is this baby going to do to you? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the back of the sling I had sewn a tiny quilted triangle, red at its center against two shades of green; it marked the baby’s nape for luck. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby cried again, and the sound of it jerked at her gut. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You know how sick a kid could get from swimming in that bad water? Same goes for the fish and the dolphins and the baby turtles. It sucks, what Dusty is doing. It’s awful.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Since both of them were having babies soon, and they lived across the street from each other, Mom and Isabel decided to form a mothers’ group. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She aims to turn them into brown shiny metal and keep them on the table in Georgia with my baby picture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded more like a baby than a cat, which is why, I suppose, it suddenly tore the blinders from my mind. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an area that had bushes, and baby trees, and benches, and a neat water fountain. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I shall marry Hizdahr in the Temple of the Graces wrapped in a white tokar fringed with baby pearls. Is there anything else?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“He watching the baby? I told him to.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The camp is quiet except for some early sounds—dishwater sloshing in pots behind the dining hall, the cry of a baby who rose earlier than his mother would have preferred. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She then told me that it was imperative that she find some kind of job soon for she would be needing diapers and baby food along with maternity care from the clinic. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, Mother, she has seemed unusually well since the babies came.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be angry, baby. Laugh. Take a drink. I must go, really.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But instead she wailed, “Oh my baby! Lord help him, they got him with fingerprints on a pizza box.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A woman hushed a fretful baby with a pacifier. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It looked like a tiny baby mouse, thimble-sized, dead or dying. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then, holding the baby, she ran around the small dooryard. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a song we sing with babies in the Overland,” said Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beefy was trying to climb out of his crib and complained in unintelligible baby talk except for one word: monstruo. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Who'd be so heartless to leave their baby alone on the road?" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ray sucked his teeth, like she was babying me. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She was from the very beginning a bright and sunny baby, who loved to be held and hugged and kissed. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Dub had been hoping for a son, but it only took a second for him to fall in love with his baby girl. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the nurses came to change her, she kicked her thumb-sized feet and hollered so loudly the babies in nearby incubators woke and joined in. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, baby, I don’t want to leave you guys,” Mama says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Of course, don’t take no genius to figger out whose baby this be. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I reckon I going to have to dress you like a baby,’ she said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The baby’s face was flushed and his throat was working and a little thick drool of saliva issued from his lips. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wants her to stop sending the bleeding baby in his direction. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I mean, that miller’s daughter cheated him. He did all that spinning for her and she said she’d give him her baby and then she reneged on their deal. Maybe she’s the villain here.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My babies, all three of them, were going up in flames. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was like a baby learning to walk. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“They was a bunch of eggs. How come they’s just one baby?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He knows this sounds funny, especially when he keeps telling Byrd not to treat him like a baby, but there’s a big difference between being a baby and being all the way grown up. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Olivia is cute and all, but I never know what to do with babies. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This very sort of contamination has created endless problems for at least one leading manufacturer of baby foods who has been unwilling to buy any fruits or vegetables on which toxic insecticides have been used. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I took the girl from him and turned to the woman to see if she wanted to hold her baby again. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t have a choice, baby. I. Didn’t.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Our baby brother, Roman, was born pale as dust. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ms. Solomon opened the door with a baby on her hip. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A soft knock on the door interrupts them: Alan and Judy and Amber and Clover, all there to see the baby. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just passing, when I heard a baby cry, and I looked through the gates and I saw him. Well, what would anyone do?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The news of the baby’s illness traveled quickly among the brush houses, for sickness is second only to hunger as the enemy of poor people. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Hamilton told me some funny things about her. You know, when he was taking her babies she bit him on the hand. You ought to see that hand, like a wolf got him.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the seniors had been tasked with submitting a baby photo for the yearbook, and the deadline was soon. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I turn on my side like a baby. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He had cried then, being pretty young, and the big fellows had called him a baby. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t get attached,” she said to her belly when the baby nudged her with a foot. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It would be like the baby birds, or like the worms, or the mouse. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The last time Håkon had been out of the village had been as a baby, before Kin brought him to Zmeyreka. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Arm was dismayed by how quickly the Mellower organized his life around the baby. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But even if they can, it’ll take a while. In the meantime, Lorraine says we might as well have the food and not let strangers steal it from our babies’ mouths.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“And I’ve been up all night, worried about you! Worried about my babies being in this neighborhood.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Mother held a baby in her lap—me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My mother, with the baby in her arms, just made it into the yard before the house crashed in, showering sparks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floor in a deft somersault. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Small children and babies perched on every lap available and men leaned on the shelves or on each other. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grocer showed up, and the postmaster, and the principal of the village school, and the neighbor, Abu Mahmoud, who grew famous green beans, and all of their wives and babies and teenagers and cats. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I just mean I hope the babies... are fine. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He usually sleeps at the foot of my bed on my old Winnie-the-Pooh baby blanket, completely covering the faded Pooh and Piglet walking into the sunset. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The red-faced, bawling baby in her arms was the one who gave them to her. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma never sent the babies out to help, although if he worked it right he could usually get May Belle to do something. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, he walked over to tell Mary Rommely about the new baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chicken nipple. I swear I would never punch a baby. I like babies.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Y’all need to get some Lotto tickets up in here, baby,” she says as Daddy rings her up and I bag her stuff. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“The babies—” “Throw them in one of your wells.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even in countries where chimp flesh is not eaten, mothers may be shot so that hunters can steal their babies and sell them—for pets, for zoos and circuses, or for medical research. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Failing to understand this, the bear ate the baby’s hand. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t break my skin, but I was going to have to be careful of her sharp baby teeth and those twisting tusks. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In the service of saving Africa’s babies and extracting its mineral soul, the West has built a path to its own door and thrown it wide for the plague. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the womb, the baby hears the mother’s heartbeat, the rushing sound of amniotic fluid and the mother’s voice. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“You mean baby rabbits? What happens to them? They don’t...” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They said it was to help out; Mom says it was because they just couldn’t get enough of my baby smell and my baby hands and my baby self. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

If in good years they had settled in villages, grown crops, and produced babies, those large populations would have starved and died off in drought years, when the land could support far fewer people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Are five baby dolls and nightgowns enough, as I like a fresh one every night? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shifted the baby to her other shoulder. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know, I saw it before and recognize the music and wish I could go sit on the plastic couch with Ernie and the baby, but now my fortune begins. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wailing of this baby ate at her, and she rode with her fingers stuffed inside her ears, but this did not seem to change things. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The baby’s father was a neighborhood boy who had no interest in helping out with his son. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Hummed so that girls in his apartment building sometimes put their babies up on top of the machines and let the vibrations lull them into sleep. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The friend had a sick baby who was suffering with colic. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“No, baby, the other. About what you are.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Sees her in her baby blue shirt and big hat. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He saw the baby and his hands flew to his face. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“A baby water monster in my cornfield. Never in my life,” Nali said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We need to talk about how you need to come home after you have the baby. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The baby came a few hours later, on the early morning of January 28. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Mom, when I was a baby, did you have a disease or something?” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think a baby is going to drink this,” Anya said. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Emma felt they were friends again; and the conviction giving her at first great satisfaction, and then a little sauciness, she could not help saying, as he was admiring the baby, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

They would be much cooler than her in her tokar, with its heavy fringe of baby pearls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And those in front passed the word back to those behind—“Scorpion. The baby has been stung.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gilly turned to face her, this mountain smelling of Johnson’s baby powder and perspiration. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

And one day he brought home a baby girl, wrapped up inside his brown western-style greatcoat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t want any of my bad juju near that perfect, healthy baby. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t mind going home and getting behind that baby.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will not leave,” he said, his baby face stern. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what they call you when it’s your first baby over thirty, over thirty for god- sake. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think she was trying to do what was best for the baby. She knew she couldn’t handle things.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When they were near enough for Malcolm not to have to shout, he said, “We got a baby to look after. We had to go in here because she was freezing.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Being careful hasn’t gotten us squat. It’s all or nothing now, baby.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“But, Chuck, I’m so scared this baby is going to be messed up too!” she said in a shuddering breath. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

We read magazines I stole from the twins and eat baby carrots. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The boy’s mother had gone to the hospital with his older brother and little sister, to visit a friend who had just had a baby. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Trip was right, though: Lexie was suddenly, furiously interested in all things baby, even going to Dillard’s to buy a frilly and thoroughly impractical lavender dress as a present for Mirabelle. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My mother died when I was a baby, and my father ran away and left me when I was two.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention Frank’s own problem: according to Iris, he should have died when he was a baby. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know who the old woman was who cut the baby’s cord. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother said that a ghost had entered him, but my mother said the baby looked pretty. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I was the youngest, I’d always wanted a baby sister or brother. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved forward and gestured to the baby. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A baby had been found buried in a garbage can in an alley in Los Angeles. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially Mrs. Cybulskis, who sat to the side of the dance floor, holding a healthy new baby boy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When my father awoke in the morning, his entire body was trembling like a baby bird’s. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The last thing Tendai saw before they were flung through a door was Myanda holding the girl baby against her breast. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It's a long swim for a baby, but she made it and landed on a bank somewhere along here. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It is only because of the baby I meet you now.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had her hand on my arm and faster than I thought I heard myself answer, "Is that you, baby?" and waited with tense breath. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor administered a lethal drug, and the baby was “put to sleep.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone from being a new mother who did not want to see her baby, let alone bring him home, to someone who would put everything on the line for his future. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But when a killer whale catches and eats a baby seal, I immediately change it back to the Korean variety show. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The baby leans into his parent, leans into the feel of being cared for. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The mother sided with Lucia and explained that the bread and water had formed the perfect baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby, still train sick, was crying in Mother’s arms. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cause most of em grown. Lot of em already having babies a they own.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I interview for receptionist, they tell me my English not good enough. Nowhere I can find work. Nobody to watch the baby.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He knew...Axel lets his own memories wash over that night with the rescue and the first sight of the baby eagle in the nest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you to grow up too fast, baby,” Jay says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I am sure it is surfeited with babies and is now coming after adults. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She won’t even set foot in this room, and these babies are in cages! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And I sat up and just felt that my baby was involved. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There will be a hundred babies, too—two babies for each pair of “parents.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Whether from fright, or the running, my baby was born a few days later, a month too soon but healthy for all that. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another woman, an elderly mulatta, claimed that her hair was falling out from the menacing stares the baby gave her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they managed to escape by climbing down a rope with the baby Lyra in her father’s arms, and they regained the family fortune, only to be attacked and murdered by outlaws. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re a boy. You get to lie around listening to stories. I have to scrub the floor, wash clothes, sweep the courtyard and—and—air out the babies’ bedding. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His permanent teeth were coming in, but they were blue and far apart like his baby teeth had been. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She bounced a little bald baby on her shoulder. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She guessed that the baby went unconscious when he dropped her. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta sat in a small heap of herself, looking smaller and smaller, letting that Ankton girl sing “Your sister is a baby” merrily, merrily, merrily. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Forget it. Besides, if Brad is such a baby about Beatrice, you have to wonder if he’s the right person to be in charge of a twenty-million-dollar tank.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

She’d supervise the household right up until each baby started coming. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would always whip it off with a flourish, muttering, ‘Don’t be such a ridiculous little baby!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jane asks, and I say, "He lives off Central," and she says, "Jesus. Stay calm, Tiny. You just need to go to sleep, baby. Tomorrow makes everything a little better." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Will you just look at what she left that baby for.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When did you find out about the baby?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Who cries this much, other than newborn babies? The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

You had to make sure they were new combs with no brood eggs in them, since nobody wanted to have baby bee larvae in their honey. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm was delighted to find that the police carried baby bottles, in case they found an abandoned child. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“On one occasion you broke into Mr. and Mrs. Watson’s home and took their child, their newborn baby.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you get some friends of your own and stop following me around like a baby?” he said instead. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He says that’s what you have to watch for when you ask for a new baby, the Angel on the Seventh Step. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She still had her napkin clutched in one hand, and she came at me with it like I was a baby who’d spit up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Yes. A child too young to go to school. Even a baby. Ever known that?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A swell kid, Cookie, and she had liked him, pitied him, babied him, inspired him to read “serious literature”—Gone with the Wind, This Is My Beloved. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at our speckled linoleum while Dad told us how the baby had been lifted from its mother’s arms, its face smeared with her blood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She sobbed out, “Dearest! You are my dearest, my darling, my dear one. A baby, a little baby, when I left you. More than marvelous is this thing that has come to me.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I could give a baby up. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Otherwise there are going to be dozens of girls running around with baby Trips. Horrific thought.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I prayed every day for this baby,” Mrs. Derby whispered. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A baby wailed behind the sawhorses, and a Salvation Army lady took it and rocked it quiet while its mother sagged in the arms of another woman. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The baby had been weaned far too early and was unhappy with a diet of watery porridge and weak, sweetened beer. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did things to women after they had their second baby, so they wouldn’t have any more. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the baby was born, Henry joined a law firm in Boston, and Elizabeth alternated between living there with her husband and in New York with her parents. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It could cure burns, sores, piles, colic in babies, bleeding dysentery and even rheumatism. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That peaceful relationship was able to persist because hummingbirds don’t count on us to spread their babies or to offer our bodies for food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew one man who once had his leg broken when an angry swan, thinking he was after one of her babies, attacked him. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

So then, since no one was around to watch us and Nelson seems incapable of embarrassment, I brought forth a shameless pantomime of a mother giving birth to one baby, then—oh my!—another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Gussie went into hysterics the first time he saw the baby nursing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Male Voice: How old is the baby ma 'am? Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The disreputable circumstances surrounding Lee's pregnancy were enough to influence the pathologist who conducted the autopsy to conclude that the stillborn baby was born alive and was then suffocated by Lee. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tom and I, making plans: what we’d plant in the garden, what we’d hang on the walls, what colour to paint the spare room—already, even then, in my head, the baby’s room. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to wake the baby?” he countered. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the time she was a baby, Annie was a family favorite. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But still: 1.6 million American women a year who got pregnant were suddenly not having those babies. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

We will bury it in our fields to renew their fertility and to assure that the baby will follow our ways. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times I saw a man with an ax chopping wood, and sometimes a woman cradling a baby at her breast. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t baby-cute anymore, and it was a hard-and-fast rule that prospective parents wanted babies. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Nice thing about it is if there’s a storm you can submerge, and it’s quiet. Sleep like a baby and all hell busting loose up above.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was crying like a baby, and I kept saying, ‘Hush, it’s all right,’ when I wanted to scream my mind and heart out. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She met other women like herself who had been imprisoned after having given birth to stillborn babies. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He looked as serene as the dead baby whose eyes I had closed in El Mangle. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“She kept it since you were a baby. When she went away to the war, she entrusted it to me. But now she is gone. And soon you will be going, too.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They ask me questions, who am I waiting for, when is the baby due, is it my mother, a sister? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sexers wore surgical masks so they wouldn’t inhale the dusty down from the baby chicks. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If you don’t want to take care of the baby, I know doctors that would love to.’” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m not a baby, you know,” Phoebe said, wiping off the kiss. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The baby was yelling in fury and kicking and waving her little fists. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Have you gone completely crazy, you silly baby? He's our prisoner, our enemy.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were thinking not about country but about family as Malia Ann Obama, one of the two most perfect babies ever to be born to anyone, anywhere, dropped into our world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It looks like he’s going to kiss the baby. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had me dig a hole for it and put it in the ground and pat the dirt around it tight, like it was a baby and I was tucking it into bed. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What a hypocrite you are. You stole that couple’s child and then you tried to take a baby away from the McCulloughs.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There should be some things for the babies too. I need to check on a few other people, but I’ll be back soon.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Then I need help assembling that little baby bookcase you and your dad got Penny.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When did you lose her, how did you lose her, did you give a baby girl up for adoption, and, do you remember, what was her name? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Pong would look at the kids playing on the stairs and sometimes think about Tanaburi Village School, and about the basket babies whose families must not have had a place like this to turn to. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A blurry vision of the baby in the box tried to surface, yet I could not express my confusion. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“But this baby never breaks down,” I say. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I got to, baby. I am so sorry.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And the interview with the mother—Bee-something, Ted hadn’t caught the full name—who had begged for her baby on camera. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, if she was going to Meg’s he always had something for the babies. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the business with the babies annoyed him, too—not the concept of it, really, nor the results. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Will had been just a baby when that letter was written. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one looked like a baby one to his. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Just like chick feathers, her baby hairs are plastered to her forehead from Sagan’s humidity. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Genie asked, rubbing his fingers along his forehead, seeing if he had any baby horns too. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I go back and forth about whether it’s a good thing that a baby octopus starts out life the size of a pencil eraser, because the eraser on my pencil is pretty darn small. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She did not speak of the joys of having a new baby; she talked about a heaviness around her, about things being out of balance, not in harmony with one another. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t seem big until you consider that most babies are more like seven or eight pounds and nineteen or twenty inches when they’re born. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She hugged her baby girl close and looked so brave. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Finish him now, my baby is growing tired." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Helen,” Jack said, “and Jack Junior and Taffy—she’s the baby. Those are my kids’ names. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

A baby girl with eyes of gold and hair the color of sunlight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The thirty-six little pictures painted on ivory were each perfectly clear: there was no doubt that this was a baby, that a puppet, this a loaf of bread, and so on. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But ever since I lost my baby thirteen years ago, my deepest fear is that I will have to put another one in the ground. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a baby is born in the village, it’s a big celebration. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aw, you just a baby,” she said, slapping her dingy palm through the air at me in a contemptuous gesture. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We begin decorating the house to welcome the baby Jesus. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She had never seen one before except on a baby. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“One time I went through a short period—chicken nipple—when I said, ‘I’ll punch a baby’ every time I saw a baby. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I give my mom the please-just-stop eyes while Shay mimics the word “sweetheart” in a baby voice. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“She said that Jeremiah was her baby and she wanted to know where he was going.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a shock—I knew she was having a baby, he’d told me, and I’d seen her, seen that pink blind in the nursery window. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of baby shoes dangle by tied laces from a drawer handle. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was like driving a screaming baby around in a car. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The young man looks at the stranger's baby. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“How do you like the baby’s name?” my mother asked. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of roots, a small, muddy, and extremely ugly baby popped out of the earth. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

This violin had a piercing, insistent sweetness of tone, almost like a baby crying. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bottles of milk were being thrown in to the babies, who made soft little grabs with their hands and clutched them greedily. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

As the men walked through the terminal, a young woman came toward them, angrily shouting that they were baby killers. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Finally Jennet covered the moaning woman with her cloak, and, whispering “I can do no more. This baby will not come,” slipped from the room. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1983 T. Berry Brazel- ton wrote that a baby arrives in the world “beautifully prepared for the role of learning about him- or herself and the world all around.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Cora was well-accustomed to the screams of colored babies in torment, hungry, in pain, confused by the mania of those charged to protect them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, baby, it’s no problem. Happy to have ’em, she insisted. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Are you walking in God’s face?—but it was Mrs. Muokelu who went over and took the baby from Okoromadu and placed it back in the mother’s arms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wallet-size photos of my grandparents’ nieces and nephews line the shelf in the hallway, along with the little baby Jesus and praying-hands statues that Grandma collects. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She passed it on to her baby sister’s only child. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of us holds in her lap a phantom, a ghost baby. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby moaned with fright, and Juana’s eyes were wide and terrified. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Moss, baby,” said his mother, and she rose as more people streamed by. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My mother washed my back as if I had left for only a day and were her baby yet. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until today she neither knew nor cared how, because the subject was uninteresting, but if someone had a baby without being married, her family was plunged into deep disgrace. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t respond, even to baby Lai’s weak cries of hunger. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Malcolm thought carefully and said, “No, sir, never. Ladies and gentlemen, or clergymen anyway, but never a baby.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Raj never looked cross or harried, or plump as she had become after the first baby. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

If all the mosquitoes lived forever— and if they kept on having babies!—it would be terrible. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I had been so pleased to have my voice back that I hadn’t realized that I was still able to speak only in simple, baby sentences, as if I were three years old. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It turned out there was no baby in it—just somebody’s sleeping poodle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t baby this guy. He loses his lunch and he’s crying? I’ve lost an arm.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But as they drove through the next village, he saw an old blind woman holding a baby girl in front of a house. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Someone who, say, had actually held a baby tiger cub in his arms? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

So in one day, I went from having one aunt, one grandma, and a bunch of baby dolls to having a mother, a father, three baby sisters, and two younger brothers. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Papa works a lot—he has since I was a baby—and Mummy’s always been...Mummylike and distant. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Aunt Loma spent most of that morning at our house, fussing about Miss Love and jerking the baby around like it was all his fault that his grandpa had disgraced the family. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She moved over and patted the bed, “Come on, baby, get in the bed. You’ll freeze before you get your question out.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things like “Hey, Will, how long you think they been sweet on one another?” and “You reckon Miss Love’s too old to have babies?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If the baby turns one when she’s already lived a year, isn’t the only consistent choice to say that the baby is zero years old before that time? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Terrorists attacked the Twin Towers on 9/11. Except our teachers are taking baby steps. Teaching pieces. Treating us like we’re five instead of ten.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was supposed to be Francie’s room but all had agreed that the baby needed to sleep where there was air. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some days, she believed that the baby had been an undeserved blessing, that she was being punished for what she had done to Nana. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Over the fire hung a kettle so large that both the babies could have bathed in it together. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She locked herself in a back room and her assistant delivered the baby. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We sit on either side of her baby sister in her car seat in their silver SUV. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Some of the birds he was aiming at this very moment were mothers with worms for their babies. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And, one by one, the Elders filed out, leaving the baby behind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Ben had just turned twelve, and Richie said he was too old to share a room with girls and babies. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He’d just reached out to pick up the red truck when Grandma yelled from downstairs, “Rise and shine, babies! Breakfast is ready!” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s all over. You have a baby girl, Emilia. A beautiful baby girl.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A woman nearly six feet tall, straight-backed and proud, heading down a cold Columbus street, two small children beside her and a still-crawling baby in her arms. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Then what exactly are you here for, babies?” he said, not unkindly, his rag hovering over the tabletop. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was staring to the side in a fixed manner; his head was round and his face as bland and untroubled as a baby’s. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Except it was quiet laughing, so as not to distract the baby from nursing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His hands push away from his body, he wants Dr. Martin to stop moving the baby into the unsafe space between them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t ask me any questions, she just picks up my bag, says, “Come on, baby.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘Yes,’ murmured Cilia, looking at him critically, ‘you’re right, baby dear. His ears are red. That always means he’s mad.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he were the mother bird, he would just leave the babies to fend for themselves. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Mariam grieved for this baby, this particular child, who had made her so happy for a while. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Such a little baby couldn’t have gone far, she thought. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I reached over and patted her back, the way one burps a baby. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Jessie did not come around anymore, she was fishing the rewarding waters of the open stream, she was returning to a tree hollow full of babies. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fritz’s girlfriend was talking to him about women’s rights, and he kept saying, “I know, baby.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It was just a baby,” said the man Jack. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, the baby needs to eat,” she said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As we talked, their baby—a tiny newborn with a pink face—lay swaddled in a blanket on his chest. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was so pleased with this imaginary baby in the crib. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her head at me and took a baby sip out of her cup. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps the baby could live with her parents while she was away at college. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But that is what Vivian told you, isn’t it? You don’t know that the baby didn’t need changing. As a matter-of-fact, you probably suspect that she did.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to her mother, the Witch ate sorrow, or souls, or volcanoes, or babies, or brave little wizards. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The baby gulped a little, but took it philosophically— just like Rab. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only puppies, this man eats adorable bouncing babies. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When I was born, my older brother, Carlton, looked at me and declared to the hospital room, “It’s not a baby, it’s a skeeter!” and from there the name stuck. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He tried to stay calm when she came to see him before going to the maternity hospital to wait for the baby. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“To your valorous wounds. To the silver medal. Tell me, baby, when you lie here all the time in the hot weather don’t you get excited?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it was the most incredible moment. And your dad carried your sister in, and she kept saying, ‘No baby!’” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Nelson lived in there with a dead baby chicken picture on the wall. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime before the middle of December, the baby, Plum, stopped having bowel movements. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Far away, a stream pattered through reeds, while near at hand bush babies shrilled at the unwelcome presence of Ear, Eye and Arm. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And now they looked like two identical bald-headed babies, even though they weren’t twins. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

His round white head was so friendly and kind, I cried like a baby because I wanted him for a father instead of my own parents. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having the same mom makes Ford my baby brother. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It’s like the open beak of a baby bird squawking to its mother, Feed me, feed me, love me, love me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kisses the top of my head twice and asks, “How are you doing, baby girl?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

My mother screamed at my aunt, “How could you? He’s the father of my baby! ” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I could see her tiny white teeth, baby teeth. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I stubbed my baby toe! I think it’s broke!” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that in churches, you know, sometimes the angels are women in long dresses, and sometimes they are babies, and—” “Oh. Churches. I do not know about all those angels.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The ma screecher nudged one of the babies with her snout. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Doctors and nurses cared for me as if I were a premature baby. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll put the kids between us. Put the baby under your blouse and coat, against your skin.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But I had Blanca and the baby to think about and I wasn’t about to throw that away. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It does not look like they will be able to leave today, with a sick husband and baby. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We split up by age—the adult class, the high school class, the middle school class, and then there’s a class for the younger kids, and a nursery for the babies. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then he made little side chambers for the babies who would inhabit them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, he didn’t care, didn’t even try, he whimpered like a baby as he fought his way through the darkness of the corridor. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She stared at the baby when the carriage came by. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he tried to ask whether the baby was a boy or a girl, he found he was unable to speak. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, tell me. You never get used to the bruised or burned or bleeding babies—the kids who’ve been abused—or the parents who bring ’em in. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Write that I’m the mother of a beautiful healthy baby girl and put a line under healthy.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, no husband at all And they took the baby from her—just stole it away, and she never saw it since! Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Grabbing a piece of pink terry cloth, she said, “That’s an old baby bib.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He’s making my baby sister mad, Because she was the one Missing a tooth, Mv fault because I was racing her around In the stroller And tipped her over Taking a corner. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cause of death was recorded as “heart failure,” according to documents at the church cemetery where the baby was buried. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The unemployed asked for jobs; the childless, for help in finding a baby to adopt; the oppressed, for justice. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, she and the baby moved into the dining room, sleeping on a sagging foldout bed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of all earthly pleasures, Laila’s favorite was lying next to Aziza, her baby’s face so close that she could watch her big pupils dilate and shrink. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mama always treats me like a baby, which I can’t stand. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For one crazy minute I thought, Mr. Willard was going to announce that Mrs. Willard was pregnant and expecting a baby girl. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Without looking up, she said, ‘I told you, I can’t hear the baby if I do.’ Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he said “I’ll punch a baby” in front of some dad holding a baby in the drugstore one day, and the dad nearly attacked him. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And now the only baby here is a collector’s edition one meant for a little kid. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

People always say babies are beautiful, but I think they look like alien-turnip hybrids. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s not just that Tom never mentioned going anywhere in the car with her, it’s the fact that when I saw her, walking away, getting into the car, she wasn’t carrying the baby. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Loma came up our walk with Uncle Camp and the baby in time to hear that. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I was so eager to see the baby, I hadn’t noticed the tears streaming down her face. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The next morning the baby doll was under the tree, a ribbon in her gold hair, and a bottle tied to her wrist. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Moss came up behind me and took the baby from me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But Pascal quickly forgave me, and it’s a good thing, since friends of my own age and gender were not available, the girls of Kilanga all being too busy hauling around firewood, water, or babies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sent Charles along to make sure her mother and the babies arrived safely at Uncle Judah’s farm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fern only heard “war baby” and thought that was a good thing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Nobody ever got hurt. Look at your brother’s eye, baby.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

These are the normal food of baby salmon. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Would a sneak-thief woman stealing a baby call attention to herself like that at a corner not a hundred yards away from the wicker carriage she took it from? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say God takes care of fools and babies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If this resulted in babies, women and their babies were killed,” An said, noting that he had personally seen newborns clubbed to death with iron rods. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Or the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if its mother keeps it tidy,” said Marilyn Roberts. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

In another picture, my uncle Woody, baby boy laughing and pointing the Nelsonville house behind him and maybe his brother at the end of his pointed finger. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“There was a war. I was a baby. I ended up on a cartload of orphans. That’s all I know.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Tochi had lost her job at a bank after the last bank crisis, but she had married a wealthy lawyer and had a baby. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I realized that my mother and father had known about this baby for a long time. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And you can do whatever the heck you want with it, provided you get parent or guardian approval. Live your best lives, babies!" Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

But even though the baby inside her was no bigger than a mulberry, Laila already saw the sacrifices a mother had to make. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But Xan remembered enough from the magicians who raised her long ago that rearing a magic baby is no easy matter. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m allergic to the baby,” he said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

At two thirty a.m., when the firemen opened the door and discovered the baby, lying in a cardboard box, it had just begun to snow, and everything was covered with a silvery, crystalline dusting. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When her baby was born, a girl, the two midwives in attendance were so preoccupied with what was going on between her legs they never even noticed her smooth balloon of a stomach. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the five hundred or so new people in our village, there are only two or three babies among the families. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie knew they were making fun of his spats and to save his feelings, she pretended they hooted because he was carrying a baby and she offered to take Laurie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Oh, no, no. Other babies can tell you whether it’s gas or a pin, or milk souring on them. But he’s a real Silsbee, and they never do, you know.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she sounded sort of lifeless and disbelieving all at the same time when she said they’d had no idea the baby was at risk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Leave the dishes, I can do them tonight. You baby me too much.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"They're already buying stuff for the baby. Everything is gender neutral because it's going to be a surprise." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He hopped over to Connor, fluttered up to his shoulder, and gazed down at the baby, cooing questions. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In her arms was a baby, wrapped in a blue blanket. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Soft boiled foods could be fed to small children, permitting the kids to be weaned earlier and their mothers to produce babies at shorter birth intervals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The little foxes eating the nice little chickens and baby mice. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Anderson has found that babies mostly glance at television because of the bottom-up system—in other words, they are responding to changes in sound and light. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them lay the berry-hedges—raspberry, blackberry, bilberry—and the strawberry patch where every August sleepy baby creatures could be seen, their stomachs full after eating the pick of the crop. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His mother carried the baby for five months, and then one night she got terribly sick and an ambulance rushed her to the hospital. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all the other babies in the quarter, Harriet Ross cut her first teeth on a piece of pork rind. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Vietnamese baby, which lay nearby, was a roasted peanut. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He looks so different,” he says after a long minute, gazing down at the baby Henry on the page and his easy, unfledged sureness. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

While in their care, the baby had been well clothed, well fed, and well cared for. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Old Rit drew the baby closer to her side, thinking, field hand, hot sun and long rows of cotton and the overseer’s whip. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the light, she had her first real close-up look at the baby, the tuft of dark hair, the thick-lashed hazel eyes, the pink cheeks, and lips the color of ripe pomegranate. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When she was through, we knew a good deal about botany and something about apiology, but nothing about how babies came. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

That winter, after she and Thumbumuzi were married, they came to see me, along with their newborn baby daughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby toddled to the window, pressing a chubby palm against the glass. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It is a common misconception that birds abandon their babies because of scent. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“When is my mom getting back from the hospital? Having a baby couldn’t possibly take this long. Do you think she went shopping?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, they were launched by the Saturn IB booster, which was the baby brother of the huge Saturn V required to reach the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Black mothers held their babies and watched with great satisfaction as we marched toward the courthouse.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

By far, most of the babies in the nursery had been sired on human girls by the trinity of gods. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After Henrietta’s funeral, cousins came from Clover and all over Turner Station to help cook for her family and care for the babies. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The baby’s screeching rose and fell like a cleaver on meat. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Despite the tumult of the times, I was a happy, chubby baby who slept through the night and was loved by an extended family full of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandmas. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Johnny, who was just a baby at the time I started at the Littles’, was now four years old. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill and Woody contributed a blanket each and partitioned off the first room: one side for Bill and Tomi, one side for Woody and Chizu and their baby girl. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks are unloading gallons of water from their cars; others, zombielike, instead of waving or saying hello when we pass by, keep staring at baby TVs or listening to boom box radios. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

My sister Viola was married to a soldier, Frank Law, in 1944, and had a baby, Frank Stephen Law, in April 1945. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As we walked off the court to the cheering of the crowd, I noticed George Finkle was still sitting right there on the court, bawling like a baby. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I think about how surprised Constantine must’ve been to hold a white baby and know it was hers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Vonetta didn’t say a word about it, but Fern went to Big Ma to ask why Pa and Mrs. needed to have a baby. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A young, attractive couple leave a house with a baby in a pushchair. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

His eyes widened at the sight of the nurse cooking his baby in the oven, but, rather than protest, he repeated his question about fetching the priest. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of times the girl who people say, “This is going to be the kid that makes it,” is the first one to have babies. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, clutching each other and shivering in a cage, were two baby bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You got that right, Jenny baby,” yapped Cha-Cha. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The other one could quit soon too and take care of the small boy and the baby. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“I think babies laugh, though, when they look in a mirror,” I said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The going-away fathers walk ahead, the mothers carry babies or push prams. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ama grew up steady and honest and kind, like her mother, and had babies of her own, and then grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s her second baby, she had another child, once, I know that from the Center, when she used to cry about it at night, like the rest of us only more noisily. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought babies were only a lot of trouble after they were born. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here the trees were like babies—only a foot and a half high—and spaced not much more than a foot apart. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the mummified corpses of baby elephants. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was, but if you want her to never be around a baby again, you have to let them know what happened that day of the 911 call.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma gave her the willow doll instead, told her to let the baby sleep, directed her to play with Little Pinch. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“There’s a cup on the floor next to you,” Trapis said, brushing a hand along the head of the baby he held. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So the women helped Nhamo sit up, and the girl who had been watching the babies ran off to fetch food. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Keen’s baby bird hatches on the board. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

But she slathers baby oil on her arms as she’s speaking. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Aw, come on, baby. Get the bubbles out of your blood. We scored. It was perfect.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I know is, this baby’s already bigger than the others when they came out, and I’m only six months. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She drives that baby with the easy confidence of a trucker. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I could eat any kind of candy I wanted because I still had my baby teeth. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I either work at Aw Shucks forever or Troy asks me to marry him and I have babies,” she says, laughing at herself. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“When she told me about the baby, that changed everything.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

All those stories I’d heard about peanut butter allergies and how babies shouldn’t have it until they were older. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed I was going to raise all my sisters’ babies! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the baby on the doorstep of a home on the other bank and returned to his waiting wife, and the prison doors clanged shut, locking them in once more. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Lucius Clarke’s shop was filled with dolls—lady dolls and baby dolls, dolls with eyes that opened and closed and dolls with painted-on eyes, dolls dressed as queens and dolls wearing sailor suits. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I feel the gentle bodies of white babies breathing against me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That, Dad told us, would make everyone happy except his mom, who hated the name Ruth and wanted the baby called Erma, and Mom’s mom, who would hate sharing her namesake with Dad’s mom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But baby Rosa is smiling when we arrive. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The only person left alive on the island was a baby girl. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“The world is coming to an end. My babies will never live to have babies of their own. God has turned His back on us, and you ask how things are going?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We had our outward lives, but now there was something inward happening, a baby growing, a tiny girl. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I know I’ve told you a million times, but I’m sorry, baby. I’ll always regret putting you through that. I’m sorry that you still have nightmares about it.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I know they say it's beef, but don't no cow have a little baby rib like this. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I watched the mother and the baby for some clue to their mutual satisfaction, but before I had discovered anything, the doctor called me in. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Is your mom still living with you? Didn’t abandon you when you were a baby? Do you have a bed you can sleep on?” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Come on, baby,” he heard the drunken soldier urge determinedly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was at Carrie’s cabin watching Jude and two other older babies someone had left with her. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Because part of Flo’s attention now went to the new baby, Flint became upset and behaved like a jealous human child. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They shared everything—from Stella’s worries about school, to how to win at hopscotch, to Carolyn’s sorrow when her baby sister, Wilma, had died three months ago. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even if he weren’t, he’d been born in a birthing center, not a hospital, so there was no chance of an accidental baby swapping. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe like a police siren, and a baby cry, and screeching tires all mixed up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I am equal to a baby and to a hundred-year-old lady. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the water, Madre Seal swims back and forth, back and forth, and I can feel her worry about all of these people near her baby. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

When a baby is born you shouldn’t say discouraging things about it like “Hey, I seen prettier dogs than that baby,” or “Maybe he ain’t ugly, maybe he’s just inside out.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw you, baby. I was in the station.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, ‘Thank you, baby. Take half for yourself.’ Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In humiliation, and suffering, and frustration, and anger, and anguish so great it was dizzying, Westley cried like a baby. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sexist geometry teacher says girls shouldn’t go to college because they will only ever pop out babies and get fat? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of whole certainty, however independent^ the sum of its facts, that can make walking backwards more than normally hazardous, and I bumped smack into a baby carriage. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“No, no, not at all, baby,” she said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The baby seems to have gotten sick from cows milk, which they were using to supplement Jo’s nursing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I wondered, as I had so many times, if it would’ve been easier to lose my parents when I was still a baby, with no knowledge of them at all. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was going through that empty period after the baby is bom when you ache to take it back into yourself. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What happens if the baby grows up and wants to find the birth parents? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She, in turn, told me that she could not let me compete, it was too dangerous for the baby and me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some were old enough to know their names at least, but Lazlo was just a baby, and an ill one, no less. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Some of the stones hit Joanna but a sharp pointed one missed and struck the baby’s forehead. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just shakes the keys like a baby rattle. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

And — several paces nearer, the gap between them closing all the time — Harry saw that the thing in the person’s arms looked like a baby ... or was it merely a bundle of robes? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Fighting with tears in their eyes and embarrassed for being babies who cry. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Taking care a white babies, that’s what I do, along with all the cooking and the cleaning. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The Commander’s Wife looks down at the baby as if it’s a bouquet of flowers: something she’s won, a tribute. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were sold once before, back when Ruth was a tiny baby, not even baptized yet. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The night of the Black Moon Ceremony, my baby brother touched the hat,” Seven said in a daze. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I put you babies in the clean places at the laundry, as far away from the germs that fumed out of the ghosts’ clothes as I could. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If by chance a baby was left behind in a crib, or a leopard in a cage, it would be a skeleton without marrow, clean as a whistle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave the baby a light kiss, and she opened her eyes and cooed. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They can sit, stand, talk, shake a stick at a drunk man, reach around their backs to fetch forth a baby to nurse, all without dropping their piled-high bundles upon bundles. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the bundle and cradled it lovingly in her embrace, as if it were a fragile baby. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She was a great one for babies, handling them better than many a grown woman while she was still a child. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because that’s what you do when you take away someone’s babies—steal their future. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The sailors took the baby from me and carried her up. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When everything was settled and agreed upon, Sissy announced to her friends and family that she was starting another baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have, lots of times. Do you know what it means when a baby comes breech?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The baby was pink and wrinkly but absolutely beautiful, with big blue eyes, soft wisps of blond hair, and the tiniest fingernails I had ever seen. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever company came over for Sunday dinner, however, Sourmelina greeted them with the overdressed baby pinned to her shoulder, the perfect accessory. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I stopped being a baby when I was initiated. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to think about how he was a baby once, how he had kids.... A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“At least tell me the sex was good. If you have to get pregnant and have a baby, the sex should be mind-blowing.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes, I swear, sometimes I want to put that thing in a box and let her float down Kabul River. Like baby Moses.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But I also knew, from other comments he made, that he felt guilty if he couldn’t love the ing babies of much as he loved little Catherine. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

If only he hadn’t put Tom at the baby table. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says: Take that crazy baby out of here and drink your Kool- Aid in the living room. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always ready to openly display the emotion so often missing from my baby boomer generation. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned forward to offer him biscuits from the bone-china platter, which she sometimes, secretly, cradled like a baby after the washing and drying. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do my best to sound positive about our future, but people are truly devastated when they learn I’ve lost the baby. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Emilia whispered to her baby, inspecting her tiny hands. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mama brought the baby, wrapped in a brown shawl that had the unpleasant smell of ogiri. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The baby commenced coughing again and the woman took the gourd away. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Before the week was over, the baby’s fever was worse. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suitcases, the queues, the wailing babies, the soldiers pouring back into the cities with eternity in their eyes—in what system is order increasing? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Zielinski had been a great friend of my mother’s, dandling baby Helena on her knee. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She told me about the time she and Gus went camping and a baby bear got into their cooler and stole their hot dogs. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It’s an answer with lots of shredded parts to it, just like the baby’s new nest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I pictured a baby the size of a small doll. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“And your parents mentioned that you put the baby up for adoption, correct?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard of girls with CF bumming hard over it, but going to stare at the babies she might never have is a whole other level. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“One of the homeboys saw you, Lisa, and your baby girl getting out an ambulance at the crime scene that night,” Tim says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I had a baby a couple of months ago. I gave her up for adoption, too.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Surely, they muttered, the baby had the sickness, too. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They had both hoped for a baby, and they were thrilled, but pregnancy was dangerous in the nineteenth century About one in every two hundred women died in childbirth. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was a black baby doing in a package? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the hospital, while she lay in a drugged fog, the doctors coaxed the baby from her womb. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a while, it seemed as if the future of eugenic sterilizations in America depended on the foggy impressions of a nurse who had been handed a cranky baby without toys. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Truth was, I was pretty happy about the baby. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

You look down and see a beautiful day-old baby in front of you. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Baba Joseph had several pets: a duiker antelope, a bush baby, a large tortoise, and an enormous warthog that waddled after him, begging for treats. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basket had to be kept warm for the baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernie ripped the toy from Samantha, then dropped down to his knees, cooing at the dog as if it were a baby. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Well, all right. I love you, baby, study hard." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Severe diaper rash on the baby indicated that she had sat in soiled diapers for hours—if not days—on end. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He downed six hot dogs, then a can of baby carrots, and gratefully accepted a dozen or so Oreos, one after the other, and ate them with great savor and particularity. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Taking off her pack she opens it and gently lifts a screaming, fighting baby goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma Charles and Miss Trotter were full of “what-to-dos” for Mrs. and the baby. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

From the bag he’d brought back from the hospital, he saves his father’s wallet, containing forty dollars, three credit cards, a wad of receipts, photographs of Gogol and Sonia when they were babies. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But his father lived and his grandmother was scared the ghosts would turn their attention to this baby boy and take him instead. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sang all the revolutionary songs, usually loudly and out of tune, until Mam would tell him to be quiet, that the babies were sleeping. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

What he had wanted was for her to take the package so that he could take the baby, but Tina stepped back and the package fell to the floor. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For they learn that in America, a baby cannot be released from the hospital without a birth certificate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What if there was a nest hidden away somewhere with more babies? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I thought my little girl could be like the girl in that book—Alicia in Wonderland! But I was wrong. My baby girl didn’t see all the beauty—just the strangeness.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mae and Birdie did not seem particularly surprised to find a basket containing a baby screecher arriving at their door. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

So, as the old woman held the new baby tenderly, she rained tears of sorrow and joy upon it, and the baby's first bath was the unusual mixture of love and loss. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They took my baby sister, Maha, but locked me and my brothers up in the house. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But from the chimps’ point of view it is no different to take a human baby than a baboon baby. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Hugh’s wife showed us baby pictures for an hour and a half.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lee’s wife grabbed the baby and carried him outside, while Lee rounded up a few valuables and some food and put them in a cloth sack. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t she send the baby to her sister’s? Or another relative?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Birdie set a saucer of water in front of the baby. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It looked like the kind of dog that ate babies for breakfast, old men for lunch, and virgin sacrifices for dinner. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She wanted to hold and play with her smiling baby brother. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had been as helpless as a baby, no more able to defend himself than Rickon would have been. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His tiny sister, clinging to her mother with both hands, exactly like a baby monkey, sat looking over her shoulder at him with large, mournful eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I won’t let anything happen to the baby,” he whispers into Ray’s floppy ear. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Lee told me. He explained the whole thing. I guess we can’t have any babies for a long time.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The baby opened its mouth and vibrated its wings, as a hungry baby will do. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That will be a very lucky baby,” she said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She lifted the baby up, but when Amari reached for the child, Mrs. Derby drew the child to her chest once more. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buddy told me Will was a third-year man and had to deliver eight babies before he could graduate. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In a sullen silence she began preparing the meal, lighting the fire, fetching the water, boiling the rice, the baby astride her hip as before and whimpering unheeded. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t have to stay away once you have the baby. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

What they did have, accordingly, was a lot more babies. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Mate had not been separated from her baby overnight since we’d come home from prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The babies must grow up with no knowledge of a world outside, so that they feel no sorrow for what they have lost. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to understand how Dusty’s hitting her could harm the unborn baby. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was better that it died so that it wouldn’t produce more generations of stupid baby turtles. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was a baby’s cry—a newborn baby’s cry. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This Jake was a baby she found, and he and Sing grew up together, and I guess rather than be packed off to some Quaker school, she ran away with him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right, baby, it’s all right. We’ll be okay down here.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Omakayas could feel in her heart what it was like for that baby, for herself, all alone with the dead, with her mother, walking from those she loved as though walking stone to stone. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A length of baby ribbon was sewn to the top. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But usually the baby just lay in Charles’s lap, staring up at his father’s face with pleasure and equanimity. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he said, “It’s hard to explain. You wouldn’t understand. Birdie, she had all these baby pictures.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A girl, not much older than Leda, is slurping juice from a baby cup. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

When he died he was away from home and many years had passed since the baby had been left on the mountain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It started a new fashion in weaning called, “Giving the baby the Gussie.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman, wrinkled, dirty, clothed in an ill-sewn sack of sealskin, pointed at the little silken dress and at herself, and smiled: a sweet, unmeaning smile, like a baby’s. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then a woman with nice gray eyes and a heart-shaped face and a baby on her hip came and rescued them from the other ladies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their whispers, the cries of little children seeking lost parents and tired of walking, and the wails of hungry babies replaced the evening songs of crickets and birds. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had to have been the baby the singer had in her stomach that made her not able to win the contest. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But before the baby even came into the world, she realized how unlikely that would be. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The landing vibrated into my shins and set my kneecaps loose like baby teeth. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then the first senior page was upon me, and I read every quote, stared hard at the baby pictures of all of these girls. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In India, she thinks to herself, women go home to their parents to give birth, away from husbands and in-laws and household cares, retreating briefly to childhood when the baby arrives. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The babies didn’t die, you know,” the old woman said, a mischievous grin curving across her wide mouth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Grandpa in the North sends a telegram money order for five pounds for the baby Alphie. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I asked, thinking of the woman in the Cousteau book, looking at the babies pouring out of the mother shark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It's a room for babies, I'm thinking even as I drag my feet across the hall. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A big baby weighing ten pounds, James joined a brother and two sisters. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sturdy brown baby girl, the thin little naked boys, the half-grown children running and calling out to each other with sweet, shrill voices. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His reference to the baby signals that our time-out from the Games is over. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wail and lamb bleat of babies too small to know, but infected by the terror of the others. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then that same cow took and stepped in her mouth when she was a baby and left it wide and flat with her chin and nose almost meeting. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Crow wanted to reach out to the pretty child; she wanted to take her in her arms and say: "Poor, poor baby, go ahead and cry." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long she was delivering so many babies that Audrey and I spent our days driving around the valley with her, watching her conduct prenatal exams and prescribe herbs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Didn't say nothing, just pushed her precious baby into my arms. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Barrett! Go in the kitchen and fish up some milk, please. We have visitors and they’re just babies, it seems.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Soft enough to hold baby Cynthia and stare at her and laugh and laugh like she was the greatest joke ever told. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nurse bees, August said, had a gift for nurturing, and they fed all the baby bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever another truck passes, I have to wind up the window fast so that the baby won’t breathe in the clouds of dust. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened a box and held up a glowing ball—no, not a baby sun but a magic peach, the peach of everlasting life! The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby looked back at the wolves, then turned back toward Seth and Kendra, bawling with renewed vigor, fresh tears streaming, tiny hands slapping the windowpanes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“No, thank you, Beans! You’ve got a real way with babies!” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents had split up when she was a baby, and she had been raised by her grandmother, an old lady on a pension, who was very strict and old-fashioned and religious. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have to wonder whether I loved him or not, or have to answer “Does Daddy’s baby want to go to California with Daddy?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there weren’t any babies in the songs my mother sang. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therese turns her head weakly from side to side, like a hungry baby or a bird in want of food. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The term "anchor baby" refers to a child born to a noncitizen mother in a country that has birthright citizenship, especially when providing an advantage to family members seeking to secure citizenship or legal residency. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

McGarrity didn’t fire them after the baby’s birth as he had planned. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could almost smell the odor of baby drool on him. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“No sir, I ain’t never seen nothing so clear as that little angel baby.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She extended her arms to take the baby, but the old man cuddled him a moment longer. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he finishes the painting for the baby, he is truly pleased with it. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“She says I’m contagious, like the pox. She says I’ll spoil the baby.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

By then, she loved these baby girls like her own. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old men, pensioners on their families, were made to run errands and mind babies, the only work left for old worn-out men in Williamsburg. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath Dad’s elbow, there stood a young, still-squeaky me, bouncing on my toes to catch a glimpse of my new baby sister. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The hospital will hold her baby one more day. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Desma Mann fretted at the idea of her baby going off so far away, all alone, but she had always known that day would come. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

That was all we’d heard about him when Carrie announced she was bringing him to Beechwood, along with Johnny and the baby. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“We won't quarrel, baby. I love you too much. But don’t be a fool.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, he took up all her attention, even more than the baby! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted to cry out that she was a baby still, but of course Nathan was right; she had left infancy forever. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still she could not imagine how he could have killed himself, being so close to Theo and Jo and the baby, “all these cheerful little rays of sunshine.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I remember running with her towards the fence, the baby starting to wake and to grizzle a little. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Sam Hamilton knew her—he took the babies, Rabbit says. And Mrs. Hamilton took care of her. Why don’t you ride out there on your way and find out what she really looked like.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The giant, soft rabbit, missing a nose, she had had since she was a baby. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know what he would do! He don’t treat you the way he treats me. When I’m strong again after I have this baby, I’m going.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was so sweet that Omakayas often pretended that he was her very own baby. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The oldest, Margarita, was about ten, then three more with about three years’ difference between them down to the baby with her pacifier on a dirty ribbon round her neck. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the baby and there was triumph in his eyes. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“We were all babies once, right? This little guy doesn’t care what country you were born in or what religion you might practice or how much you weigh or who you might love.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God. Simon was such a sweet baby gay, writing the gayest fanfiction. I love it.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“If you’re ready to talk, baby, talk. I got your back.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We kiss our baby brother good-bye in his hospital bed where he reaches out, cries to come with us. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“And for God sakes, put a coat on that baby!” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The baby gurgled, showing pink gums, and reached out for his father’s glasses. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I just remembered I promised to get back early. Cathy, my wife, is going to have a baby.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Between them stood a large—Arm would have said majestic—woman clutching a tiny baby. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The baby, Ariana, was little longer than a loaf of bread and no more distinctive-looking. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She examined the baby one last time, feeling for pulse or breath. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

No one had given birth in one of the beds—or remembered with fondness the peeled paint places, because that’s what the baby, when he learned to pull himself up, used to pick loose. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young girls produced babies—they weren't called babies; they were called new children. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I tore off a piece to carry with me, thinking it would make a good swaddling cloth for a baby. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Look, you can’t be worried about what folks think, baby,”Jay says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We put the container under the sink and hoped that the water would soothe the soon-to-be-hatched baby birds. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Katrina had described his strong hands smoothing the wood and rounding its corners so that the coming baby would not be endangered by sharp edges. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeds come out the end and get into women’s stomachs and grow into babies, whether you want it or not. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the contraction passed, she said urgently, “I will die, but you must save my baby.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

These drummers have known me since I was a baby. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Planted flowers in coffee cans. She said this year, she planted a baby instead.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every time a new baby was born, they’d always go out to the Holy Grove, and pray to Saint Gwenforte, the Holy Greyhound, to keep that baby safe. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I must insist that you do not fall in love with that baby.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m talking court cases, supervised visits—how you gon’ have some stranger supervise me as I spend time with my babies? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her suntanned face turned toward me with the innocent curiosity of a lively baby. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the platform are men in work caps, women in worn cotton dresses, weary grandmothers embracing grandchildren who were babies before the war. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You saved my baby. You’re a hero, Duke! A real hero!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

So they came: friends, neighbours, bringing sugar cane and frosted sugar and sticks of striped candy for the new baby. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain Underpants is for babies,” I said at last. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She grew very big—abnormally big, even at a time when women gloried in big babies and counted extra pounds with pride. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took him only because she did not want to be parted from her baby, and because the wanted to show him off to his father, and partly because she wanted to compare the faces. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or did you mean Big Rose? That one’s Lolly’s true novia. They going to get married in their storage closet and have big-head, special babies.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We’d have babies at the same time, take family beach trips to Jamaica, remain mildly critical of each other’s parenting techniques, and be favorite fun aunties to each other’s kids as they grew. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The screaming of the babies suddenly changed its tone. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raising a baby—magical or not—is not without its challenges: the inconsolable crying, the near-constant runny noses, the obsession with putting very small objects into a drooling mouth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“The midwife or a relative would take the back of a girl baby’s head in her hand and turn her face into the ashes,” said my mother. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said the items, starting with girl and working back to cockroach, and I swear he looked just like a great big baby that had just made a superduper mud pie. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I said, and gently patted the steering wheel like it was my tender new baby. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you teD me you had a baby? Why have you lied to me all the time? I suppose she was your famous miracle, which you were so proud of.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Model T bumped down Eagle Rock Way, heads popped out of the windows of neighboring houses, dogs raced into the woods with their tails between their legs, and babies started to scream. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been delivering babies until the hospitals were all burned down. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby’s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Turu was a storyteller who liked to fling his arms about for show, but inside he was as soft as the baby alpaca’s fleece. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The fairies came to christening parties and gave the babies magical gifts. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Not babies, exactly. But by age two or so they had expressed who they were and what they cared about most. We just sort of—interpreted.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I think of words like dumb and baby and think how wrong Albert really is. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Across the hall from the bedroom was a bathroom with a baby blue sink, a toilet ringed with rust, and an upright shower stall with neither a door nor a curtain. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Nurses? It won’t be easy to find nurses. There’s a war going on, man. If someone has a baby, you’ll be the midwife.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The baby’s coffin lay on a table draped in white cloth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A woman throwing her baby down to a sailor. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ben talked in his sleep, and Maisie and the baby both snored. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Mother buys everything to make egg rolls for a coming holiday when Americans eat a turkey the size of a baby. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The way she used to stare at us when she was a baby. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The baby in her arms squirmed in his blue blanket like Camp Half-Blood was the last place he wanted to be. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She runs out to the shed to dab at herself with a towel and we’re able to grin at each other at the table and tell Alphie he’s the champion baby in the world. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Mrs. Watson was on the sofa, sleeping. The baby was in the carry-cot and was crying—screaming, actually, red in the face, she’d obviously been crying for a while.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should have told him that. I was not prepared for the question—he is such a baby still.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

For these anatomical details, these particular signs of life, are the ones she has the most difficulty picturing when she imagines the baby in her arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You are so cute. Yes, you are. You’re the cutest baby in the entire world.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Now, now, sweetie,” Pa said to Miss Hendrix, the same way he told Fern, “Now, now baby girl. Ain’t no bogeyman in the radiator pipe.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Leafie leaned over the baby and gave me some quiet instructions. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was perched on Xan’s shoulder, watching the baby kick and coo with interest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I had a baby. I gave her up for adoption.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My baby face is sinking down to the past and a new face is coming to the surface, with my grandmother’s slightly turned-up nose and my father’s deep-set eyes and my mother’s coffee-with-milk-color skin. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The baby squirrel stood on top of the gatehouse threshold. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Joanna was taking her baby out for an airing in its carriage. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The redness of my mother’s hands after scrubbing the laundry or delivering another woman’s baby. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like that one you did of me as a baby. I want you to paint me like I am now.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

During her pregnancy, and until shortly before she had left her baby, Bebe had worked at a restaurant where one of the cooks had been arrested for dealing heroin. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as we finish congratulating the Hurricanes, we collapse into a huddle, all crying like big babies. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

And one of my crazy baby cousins tried to eat this. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He took the baby and pinched its lower lip until it opened its mouth. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rayette was six feet tall and had a face that would frighten a baby, but she seemed good-natured and was diligent with the coffee. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how you grew up so fast. You know you’ll always be my sweet baby girl, right?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Here is the baby with a belly full of stars. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He looked at Ethan and the telkhines with those horrible golden eyes, as if he were a newborn baby, not sure what he was seeing. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Each baby born, a world created, a possibility. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I placed the baby in Emilia’s arms and leaned down to whisper, “I told Dr. Richter I found a Latvian to translate. I think he believed me.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Somewhere I have a family who have rooms filled with nothing but books and who still grieve for their baby who was stolen. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then they went over a rise out of view, and she leaned down to stroke her baby’s hair, so beautiful beneath her hand, and went downstairs again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He then exhaled and more words dribbled out like applesauce from a baby's mouth. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

My grandma, now an old woman but once a helpless baby, handed over into safety by her doomed parents. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I love you, baby, and I’m so proud of you. You’ve been so brave with everything that’s going on,” Mama says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

But we circle around him like he’s still the baby he used to be. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She came over to me, pinched the ends of a few of my plaits, then patted my edges as if she was touching up my baby hair. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

This is the first time he’s ever let anyone else drive his “baby.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The debil leader laughed just as Teacher Sarah’s undersize baby girl drew her first breath and opened her eyes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby and the small family dog were taken out of the house before the spraying was done about nine o’clock one morning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in one of those baby carriers on the floor—strapped in and safe as I checked out my world of green shag carpet and matching sofa. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

My baby, she swallowing it back, like she trying real hard not to cry. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He slipped the clean diaper under the baby’s bungy with one hand before removing the soiled diaper with the other. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or ask for pictures of the baby, if not me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Don't go on. No love, no marriage, and no baby, Janae! Okay, maybe a little bit of love. But no marriage and no baby.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I dressed and went with him to his farm to deliver what I thought was a baby. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This baby’s been in service for fifty years. Oldest model still in the chutes.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You named this duck? Biddy, I swear they gonna lock you in a loony bin. Biddy kept on a-chattering. “You the prettiest baby duck in the whole wide world. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her real snores are so loud they scare the baby opossums. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Dyedka had it from before, when there were dragons, back when I was a baby. He talks about them sometimes.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She transformed herself into an astonishingly large hawk, descended on the child, gripped the swaddling clothes in her talons, and lifted the baby into the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Here is the baby holding the hand of her beloved and saying yes, I love you, too. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“When she finished with me, she started on the doctor. ‘Stop hurting my baby!”’ Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You did fine, baby. You’re really good at this, you know?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After the longest while they decided to let the big baby have his own way and came back downstairs. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I can see it, that there won’t ever be any babies born alive. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I feel normal enough to say, “Now I’m your baby? You haven’t been acting like it.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

"I dunno. He called me a baby and said I ruin everything. And..." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She cradles him in her arms like a baby. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Whose idea you think it was to sell my babies?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was the closest they’d come to seeing their mother alive since they were babies. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A group of toddlers play with toy trains and Legos while a baby hollers in his mother’s arms. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He’s going to get a good education and my baby is not going to be sitting around here selling drugs or holding a gun on anybody. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anointing her hands with cornmeal and oil, she rubbed and kneaded, pulled and tugged, and turned that baby from both the inside and the outside until finally he was in a position to come out. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman from the back of the crowd shouted up at her, “Go ’head, baby!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lee took the second baby, washed it, wrapped it, and put it in the basket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he was a baby, the doctors didn’t think he’d live. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Except for a few gray strands of hair, she was as bald as a baby pigeon, which gave her the appearance of being a very old man with enormous, wide eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I am alive and the babies are dead. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will still be a baby compared to its mother when we arrive. They’re using the time-released nutrients to control its growth and keep it and other plants alive.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The doctor cleaned and examined the baby while Joana tended to me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Once the itty-bitty baby plant peeks out of the ground, it sprouts leaves, so it can absorb more sun. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

To make matter worse for Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton announced that she was pregnant again, with her sixth baby. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Carol says these things are to keep you from having babies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Belet picked it up gently, as she might if it were a sleeping baby. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“She smokes. Mrs. Zamborska did not allow anyone to smoke in the house and especially around the baby. Nobody allows that anymore. But that one smoked right there next to the nursery.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a baby duck. We got a baby duck!” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Abel hadn’t come home by the time we’d gone to bed, and I’d fallen asleep in my mother’s room with her and Andrew, who was still a baby. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but would you still go to the nest? Would you listen as intensely if I said how many babies I think there are?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mate and I moved into a front room with the crib for both our babies. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Juliet was family, and there was obviously something seriously wrong with his baby sister. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You calling that thing a baby.” she said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In shop windows, and baby carriages left for a moment in the sun. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes, and lowered herself into the garbage, the baby clutched in her arms. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew it was normal, the way the baby was breathing too fast, as if panting in her sleep, and yet even that worried her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then they started getting smaller again, becoming a baby again. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“A baby. A baby person. When there were lepers here.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I trembled like a baby leaf fluttering in the wind as I moved toward my mother. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I wish...I wish I could give you more options, baby. I do. We don’t have any. Especially right now.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, he said he was the baby’s father.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And then they left, taking Ivy’s screaming baby brother with them. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The family has gathered at Fifi's house for Christmas, which falls a week after the baby's birth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I had pneumonia when I was just a tiny baby,” Denna said with no particular inflection. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like a baby, I stick my tongue out at him and make my way, life jacket and all, farther into the water. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Sunday evening air seemed unusually still as the baby blue school bus rolled. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I had always assumed he knew me as a baby. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The other brother—freckled, thinner, with a too-dark tan and black circles under his blue eyes—took the baby. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A girl, with a baby strapped to her back with an embroidered orange cloth, stands up and puts her hand in front of me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Still, she was determined not to take ibuprofen because she was pregnant with Aurora and had heard it could hurt the baby. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I was everything three babies could have been. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I was around four years old when she was born, and I remember this tiny, squirmy baby girl with a big, beautiful Afro of soft curls appearing in our home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s just something we Overlanders say when we see our baby sisters being tossed around by bats. See, for us, that’s creepy.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like a big, dumb baby for writing that note. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Even if he didn’t put the rope on her, he drove her to it. He sold her babies!” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

As they all turned in that direction, they could see Clay Derby strolling toward them, carrying the baby girl. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will I still be an aunt after you give the baby away? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She tried to whistle, but nothing happened, so she sang out loud instead, a song her father had made up for her when she was a little baby and which had always made her laugh. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She had to force herself not to reach out and grab the baby from Clay. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, all the people in the crowded little shack—all except the baby, who was asleep—were at a loss for words. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sissy’s husband sat by the window, holding the baby while he gave it its bottle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What for you,” my mother would say, taking my face in her hands, “my last-born, my baby? Four dowries is too much for a man to bear.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think things are actually starting to pick up a bit. It’s gotta be the billboard. People see that baby elephant and they just have to stop and spend their hard-earned cash.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Sissy: And when Mother goes—pray God not for a long time yet—and baby is big enough to start kindergarten, I’m going out to work again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither niece nor baby grandaunt labored under any illusions on that account. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bush baby, or galago, is a small, squirrel-like animal related to a monkey. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Without proper food and medical care, the baby died,” the investigator said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She pleaded the excuse of her baby, whom she must rush home to feed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"Does the baby want his momma? Come, have a suck o' this, boy." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With one in his hand and one in his teeth, he whirled around to find a face caked in baby powder staring at him in shock. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The confusion that ensued when I explained to my stepfather that I expected to deliver the baby in three weeks, more or less, was reminiscent of a Moliere comedy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the baby and examined it and felt its head. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And now he's here to look after me like I'm a baby?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I shook my head, Julian said: “Are you talking about the baby chicks in science? Those get donated to a farm at the end of every school year.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

My baby sister was disposed of not buried. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The principal told Johnny that since he knew the baby was coming, he should have been more careful of his job. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s a Chinese baby. She’s going to grow up not knowing anything about her heritage. How is she going to know who she is?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could not remember meeting them in the mountains when I was a baby. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks shone pink and chubby as a baby pig’s. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same cry of futile despair he had uttered when Sissy had insisted that she had given birth to the baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then, of course, we all knew something I hadn’t known back then, which was that none of us could have babies. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to flick on the bathroom lights fast so that no small shadow would take a baby shape, sometimes seated on the edge of the bathtub, its hopes for a bowel movement so exaggerated. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest hostage was six-and-a-half feet tall but had a baby’s face; the smallest was a runty boy who claimed nine years but looked no more than six. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A troop of bush babies chattered as they made their way along the shore. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was too young for fatherhood then; nonetheless, it had been he who had saved a baby sentenced to die because the litde one was eager, and curious, and lively. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Neeley, wearing his new spats, manfully insisted on carrying the baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was there that day—in a little bucket-seat baby carrier. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Melissa never seemed to have enough milk for two babies, so we were not surprised when the weak one died at the age of ten months. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The germ that spreads better leaves more babies and ends up favored by natural selection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When neighbors didn’t want me to birth their babies anymore. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, baby, I’m sure your mama would love a picture from you.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They had emotions; they had been babies once. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

One by one, the babies ventured out to see her. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was one thing to feel this way when my baby sister was born, but to still think it now? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Mommy, I need to know that if something happens to me you will take care of my babies. I really need to know that.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Okay, until some guy got up on the stage and started shouting what he and his aces were going to do to the white communities nearby. Then some fool started yelling, ‘Burn, baby, burn!’ It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Dad started work at Arizona State College, and Mom stayed home and started having babies. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“My beautiful baby,” she murmured over and over. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handed her the torn photograph, and Hermione smiled at the baby zooming in and out of sight on the toy broom. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I walked up to my mother and saw that she was hovering over something, as if she were tending a baby. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirtiest of all tricks for passive carriage is perpetrated by microbes that pass from a woman to her fetus and thereby infect babies already at birth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the merchandise looked pretty ordinary: books, electronics, baby diapers. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Adam said, “Do you remember Samuel Hamilton?—sure you do. When you were a baby he told me I was a bad father. He hit me, knocked me down, to impress it on me.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The baby is coming. Aren't you excited to meet your new brother or sister?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Though she is five, I always think of her as a baby. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had not wanted to hurt the baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His baby brother, as he likes to point out. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Pong and the headmistress both laughed to see the old man so natural with the baby. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Twice the midwife refused to come to laboring mothers who had nothing to pay, and so the unfortunate women had to bring forth their babies with none but a neighbor to help. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a birth mother who wasn’t sure whether she wanted to keep her baby or put her up for adoption, and she needed a week or so to make the decision. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But with the baby coming, I don’t see how I could manage.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A few years later, an older cousin told him what a miscarriage was, and confided that Roy’s mother had lost a baby girl. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We remembered Mrs. Breedlove knocking Pecola down and soothing the pink tears of the frozen doll baby that sounded like the door of our icebox. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She claims I am her youngest now but she still is clutching her baby. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you see baby chickens in your dream?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I should have thought, after the story of those babies...” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

People especially steered their babies away from Cleofes, afraid that if he admired the kids or tickled them under their fat chins, the children would sicken and grow humps. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What you get paid, how they treat you, the bathrooms, the babies, all the things you’ve seen, good and bad.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was a little girl—a baby—was it not?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was crumpled like a baby bird that had fallen out of its nest, and there was blood coming from her head, staining the marble floor that was freezing cold under Maya’s bare feet. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

His baby brother had been wild as a winter storm since he learned Robb was riding off to war, weeping and angry by turns. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And—but, of course—what other baby would my mother be holding? Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

And tomorrow morning, you'll get to meet your new baby brother. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

As we were leaving with Brady, Mr. Corcoran plumped the baby down on the hearth rug and was rolling around, tickling him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mariam rose to her feet and walked a few steps before the baby started making the eh, eh, eh sounds that Mariam knew signaled the onset of a hearty cry. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton begins to play the scales again—this time, she says, in the key of G. I suck in a large breath and pray to baby Jesus. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It’s so nice of Minerva to help me out—with as much as she has to do with a new baby and her law classes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We saved the baby. Dr. Martin placed the eaglet in the bag so gently. We saved it.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“She knew she was pregnant when she wrote that bull about how her husband wanted a baby, didn’t she?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I bought baby powder for the oil in my hair. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Of course it does, baby. And afterward we’ll go to E Motions, and then out to dinner at Junior Jay’s!” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This shank probably klunked his pants when he heard old Benny baby scream like a girl. Need a new diaper, shuck-face?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Luckily for her, the bullet didn’t go through the baby’s body. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Carlos had woken up and called Alex a baby, and Papi had told Carlos to shut up, that Carlos had done that and worse in his day. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The coming baby's father was nowhere in sight. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But her eyes shone with pride and she said, “My baby. My baby. Look at you. I love you already.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after moving into their new home, they had to bury a baby. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman and two wailing babies took up most of the gray space. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mami propped up her pigeon pea and annatto bushes, which had been flattened by the storm, and soon they bloomed again, their leaves as new and fresh as babies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

From time to time she spooned food into their mouths, as if they were baby birds. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Labor where your heartbeat dropped and the baby’s heartbeat dropped. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At the table beside them, a baby slammed its chubby palms on the tablecloth and the silverware jumped with a clatter. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She would imagine words coming out of her mouth, like They’re not monsters, you know, and she would imagine, too, what Minya’s response would be: Tell that to the other babies. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He did not remember his sister at all, except as a tiny, feeble baby, always silent, with large, watchful eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You know, I have a box of baby pictures around here somewhere. Keep it up, mister.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“After the baby, none of this will fit you anyway.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to know whose baby girl I'll be when my mother's new baby comes, born where the sidewalks sparkle and me just a regular girl. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, chivalry is officially dead. Who wants a guy who can buy you frozen yogurt but not take care of a baby?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Grace saw Maya’s birth certificate, her parents’ names carefully typed in, and a small set of baby footprints. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“As everyone knows, it is more difficult to accelerate an automobile than a baby carriage,” read one passage. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Matilde will live with her husband and start having babies and have no time for a little sister. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was wrestling my three-year-old baby brother into the crib in his little bedroom upstairs. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiberinus saved two babies, one of whom went on to found the world’s greatest empire. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At last he handed the baby back to Juana, and he turned to Kino. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sex education's only about how to make babies and how not to make babies. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now she wished she could have had that baby secretly and gone away somewhere and when it was over come back and tell him that everything was fine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby, washed now and quiet, is placed ceremoniously in her arms. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I swear, my baby’s just like me” — and the affection would be undone. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Mostly, pottery is owned by sedentary societies: what nomad wants to carry a collection of heavy pots, as well as weapons and the baby, every time he or she shifts camp? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about a baby rabbit that our dog, Moody Blue, caught and carried around—she was not actually lunching on the rabbit, just playing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Summer doesn’t like you, but I want to have your babies! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The baby weighed less than Precious Coins, but was a lot more grief. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

They bought small gifts for their Flittman cousins and something for Sissy’s baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where we had a table with a cloth and a vase for flowers and some chairs, they only kept a empty blue baby crib with a tired old white sheet over one corner. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Nya's mother tied the baby on her back and walked with several other women to a place between the village and the pond. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean Hells Angel baby,” I pointed out. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Definitely a crush,” Jessa had said, crunching on a baby carrot. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Dante’s making a list of names for his baby brother.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Whose new wife always seemed to suffer emergencies at the last minute that kept him from visiting more often, especially now that the baby was born. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

To the flight attendant and to the crying baby whose ears hurt. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Or if the aunt wants to find the baby? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her voice came out all trembly when she said, Yes, baby. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their wives gossiped at the general store as their babies slept in a row on the counter, heads resting on long bolts of fabric. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Four girls, I checked, three in panties, and the baby naked. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it’s doing exactly the opposite; when I leave their house I run home, can’t wait to strip my clothes off and get into the shower and w ash the baby smell off me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though her throat was parched with thirst and her feet burned with pins and needles, it was a long time before Mariam gently freed her finger from the baby’s grip and got up. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The baby nursed peacefully at her mother’s breast, her cocoa brown skin a sharp contrast to Mrs. Derby’s pinkness. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t dared to leave the babies alone with their mother. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

All of the worries of the day rise from him, and left behind is the hope for those babies in flight. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The big, cool baby finally shut his mouth and ran into the house. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they ever found out for sure that he was a traitor, Farquar’s Treatment would feel like baby’s play compared to what they could do. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

And then I’d listen as women with babies on their laps, some of them still teenagers themselves, told me stories. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The crib stood in the middle of the floor, and one gloomy lamp was all the illumination in the room, so the baby was in semi-darkness. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Father caught her by the shoulder and gently took the baby from her. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

This missing thing, this lost essence, explained the boys on the corner and “the babies having babies.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And those great big baby dolls that wet their diapers. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t let colored folks in libraries, baby. Now go fetch some eggs for your mama so I can start this cornbread.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then I figured out that if a baby is bom in New York every 50 seconds, and each person has 18 locks, a new lock is created in New York every 2.777 seconds. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I did when I was a baby. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s a lie, baby,” she said, grinning, and flipping the newspaper back open, fanning through it until she got to the comics. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

This morning, past the Cedar Falls train stop, Annabelle runs on a friendly path of crushed rock bordered with trees, all bright green and yellow with baby leaves unfurling. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She needs to know that the baby and the adult that she saw earlier today are the injured baby’s family. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Think of those Belgian babies and starving Frenchmen. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And I’d known Nathaniel since I was a baby, so I could roll my sleeves up above my elbows in his presence. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then she would picture Joaquin as a baby, waiting for someone, a family, a person, and that terrible feeling would push its way past her heart and into her throat, choking her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Bran was still an unaccompanied minor, so he had to wait until his father showed proper ID before he could go over to where Tina was holding the baby. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t dawn on me till after he left that I still didn’t know any more about ladies having babies than I did yesterday when I was just nine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“No problem. Oh, by the way, there’s another little shock coming. Maybe the big baby would like to suck his thumb for comfort.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Spring in Garden Heights doesn’t always bring love, but it promises babies in the winter. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And then everyone sings together “You get a line and I’ll get a pole, and we’ll go down to that fishing hole, honey, oh baby mine!” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You went and told them about us and the baby?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

His paw was warm and soft and wet, big as a lion’s, with fingers the size of baby carrots. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The lemonade and bun are delicious and Alphie the new baby is chirping away enjoying his baptism day too innocent to know his name is an affliction. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He put a hand among the curls and the baby laughed gleefully and then the man tilted the chin and cut the baby’s throat and the baby went right on laughing. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Leanne reached for it, but the picture of a tiny baby in a box had already slipped into view. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“You made it all about you, how great you are. What a good friend. And you made me look like a helpless baby.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every time she was asked if she wanted to leave the mothers’ ward to go see her baby in intensive care, her answer was the same: no. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The baby, he says, was given to him by another shepherd from the Laius household, who had been told to get rid of the child. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even when he does look like a baby, he’s never newborn. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One who will protect her baby, no matter what. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z