After Peach leaves with her new parents, Grace tells her parents that she “want to find birth mother” (10). Peach is born “right when Max being crowned homecoming king” (8).Ĭatalina and Daniel offer to keep the adoption open so Grace can see Peach, whom they have named Milly, but Grace “ trust herself” to “not her back” (9). Grace forms an attachment to Peach, especially as she becomes more isolated at school and at home. Grace and her parents give the baby up for adoption, and she chooses a couple named Catalina and Daniel. After putting her baby up for adoption, 16-year-old Grace, an adopted only child, feels compelled to find her birth mother. Grace found out she was pregnant during her second trimester, and by then, her baby was as big as a peach, so Grace started calling her unborn baby “Peach.” She knows she can’t keep the baby because “Peach would need Grace in ways that she couldn’t give to her” (5). The 2017 National Book Award winner for Young People's Literature, FAR FROM THE TREE, by Robin Benway, is a contemporary novel about three teen characters: Grace, Maya, and Joaquin, who discover they're siblings. Although they share the same birth mother, each child has followed a different path and they only reconnect as older teens. Grace, Joaquin and Maya, the three main characters in Far from the Tree are biological half siblings. However, she ends up giving birth to her daughter on homecoming night. Far From the Tree by Robin Benway is the winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The first section of the novel (Chapters 1-27) is titled “Falling.” Sixteen-year-old Grace planned to spend her homecoming dance with her friends and Max, “her boyfriend of just over a year” (3).
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