Showing posts with label separation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label separation. Show all posts

Monday, December 17, 2012

Son by Lois Lowry

Son (Giver Quarter, 4)
Lois Lowry
Houghton Mifflin
393p.


Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Waiting for the Magic by Patricia MacLachlan

Waiting for the Magic by Patricia MacLachlan
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
2011

When Papa goes away for a little while, his family tries to cope with the separation by adopting four dogs and a cat.