Lexile = 780
Grace, Maya, and Joaquin all share a mother. None of them know anything about the others. Joaquin is the oldest of the three and was never adopted. His life in the foster care system was at times really tough. Maya is the sassy brown "outsider" in her family. Grace is about to have a baby and plans to give that baby up for adoption. Her experience has started her thinking about her own birth mother and how and why she adopted. She finds out about the siblings she never knew and together they grapple with the concept of family.
If you live with someone, are they your family? If you are related by blood with someone, are they your family? Grace, Maya, and Joaquin have had vastly different lives. Benway's award winning book attempts to answer questions of race, adoption, and family. I really loved this book.
Watch an interview with the author after she won the National Book Award HERE.
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