A Secret Shared by Patricia MacLachlan / Hardcover - NEW BOOK Book cover type:Hardback

A Secret Shared by Patricia MacLachlan / Hardcover - NEW BOOK Book cover type:HardbackNewbery Medal winning author Patricia MacLachlan paints a moving portrait of what it means to be a family, the power of love, and the importance of bringing the truth out into the light, in this beautiful and profound story about adoption. Nora and Ben's younger sister Birdy loves to keep secrets. She surprises her family more than once: She hides a kitten in her room. She writes a beautiful poem. One day Birdy watches her mother spit into a tube,

Blanca has come barreling back into their lives

cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn

special celebration

a bookish brooding editor from back in the city

so it is permanent (not a decal)

or food allergies

Dimensions: 9

represent a piece of history left untold and a celebration of Black motherhood long overdue

Until a new family moves in

With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana (yet still somehow manages to be overbearing)

Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement--from the well-documented events that shaped the nation's treatment of Black people

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