A friend is looking for a book she read in the late 70s/early 80s. Here is what she remembers:
I’m trying to remember the name of a book that I read when I was growing up so it hadn’t been written in like the 70s or early 80s. It was about a girl that grew up in a family they didn’t have a lot of money but they weren’t super poor I think she babysat for somebody and she sometimes pretended that that family was hers and somebody had a miscarriage but I can’t remember if it was a family she babysat for her her own family. And she may not have babysat. Sugesstion: Claudia By Barabara Wallace
Lost Classics of Teen Lit: Name That Book! 
Claudia by Barbara Wallace is a wonderful book, but it isn’t this one. Claudia’s family was squarely middle-class, and the family she babysat for was pretty miserable; she didn’t wish she were one of them.
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