National Book Honor Winner, Pencil America Award Champion, and NY Times Bestseller!

Perfect for supporters of This Is normally All of us, Robin Benway’s beautiful interweaving story of three very different teens connected by blood explores this is of family in every its forms-how to think it is, how to maintain it, and how to love it.

Being the center child provides its ups and downs.

But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle kid is a different ride altogether..LEARNING MUCH MORE about Definately not the Tree After putting her personal baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family members, including-

Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a great deal to say about their newfound family members ties. Having developed the snarky brunette in a house filled with chipper redheads, she’s quick to find traces of herself among these not-quite-strangers. And when her followed family’s long-buried complications start to explode to the top, Maya can’t help but wonder where exactly it is that she belongs.

And Joaquin, their stoic older bio sibling, who has no curiosity about bonding over their shared natural mom. After seventeen years in the foster treatment system, he’s discovered that we now have no heroes, and secrets and anxieties are best held near to the vest, where they can not harm anyone but him.

Don’t miss this moving novel that addresses such essential topics as adoption, teen pregnancy, and foster care.