Far from the Tree Lib/E (Audiobook)

from howifeelaboutbooks

This is a beautiful story about three siblings who grew up separately, each involved with the foster care and adoption systems in some way before finding each other. The “baggage” that each sibling carries affects how they relate to each other and learn from each other. I passed this book along a...

from readingbeader

After Grace gives her baby up for adoption, she decides to find her own birth mother. She discovers two other siblings, an older brother and a younger sister, who have no interest in finding the "woman who abandoned them." Joaquin has been in foster care since he was a baby. Maya was adopted at b...

from cathishaw

This was a fantastic book. Robin Benway really has created a treasure with this story. The book moves between Grace, Maya, and Joaquin's points of view. Three siblings who have only just met and who have very different stories. This a book about heartbreak and love. It's about discovery and fear....

from gentlespirit512

My goodness! When I saw that this was a young adult novel, I knew that it would approach all kinds of issues with a punch you generally don't find in adult novels. I was completely unprepared for the number of issues that Robin addressed telling the stories of these three siblings who have just f...

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When Grace gives her baby up for adoption, it sets her on a path to find her biological mom. Grace, Joaquin, and Maya are bio-siblings who find each other after all of them had adopted or put in the foster system. Each of them is working through a large amount of trauma related to not knowing the...