By attending a children's service bureau workshop, David meets other adopted teenagers and comes to terms with his identity as an adopted child.
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Grade 7-9 David Brooks feels angry, afraid and alienated about being adopted. These feelings, which he is unable to discuss with his parents, cause antisocial behavior. Joining a discussion group composed of other adopted teenagers is pivotal to his emotional development and gradual acceptance of himself. The story, which follows David from age 13 to age 18, reads more like a case study than a novel, and David is too wooden and lifeless to involve readers. The other adolescents in the group are equally one-dimensional prototypes of adoptees with emotional conflicts. The inclusion of much extraneous material about David's sexual awakening is awkward and does not further plot development. (Moreover, his father's instruction in the use of condoms is inappropriate for the book's intended readership.) The style, particularly the dialogue, is stiff and didactic. This story fails as a novel and as bibliotherapy. Marguerite F. Raybould, Glendale Public Library, Calif.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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