
The Other Mother
by Carol Schaefer
Nonfiction · ages 14–18 · grades 9–12 · 1050L · 362 pages · 2013
Why we'd hand it over
A frank, unsentimental adoption memoir that doesn't pretend the story is simple; it's a book about real grief, agency, and the cost of closed adoptions, and it trusts teen readers with ambivalence.