Lost and Found

Marilyn Harris. Ballantine Books, $5.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-345-37462-2

Orphan Belle Drusso finds happiness and the key to the mystery in her life in Harris's predictable fairy tale, set during the 1930s Depression, and in racially biased America in the '40s and '50s. Doubleday Book Club main selection in cloth. (Dec.)

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