SO glad a friend shared this one with me — I hadn’t heard of it and might never have stumbled upon it, but wowweee I loved it! It’s rare to that books tell a story of teens in foster care in a more positive and redeeming light, and this one did so BEAUTIFULLY. It was motivated by the author’s own foster daughter, and you can tell that the story (although totally fiction) is close to her heart and coming from a place of both firsthand knowledge and deep love.

It warmed my heart, it made me cry, it made me hopeful... it was lovely and important and SO worth a read.