# Far From The Tree

**Author:** Robin Benway
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2017
**Page count:** 326
**ISBN-13:** `9781471164347`
**ISBN-10:** `1471164349`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/far-from-the-tree
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

WINNER OF THE U.S. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017 FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE! 'Sometimes, family hurts each other. But after that’s done you bandage each other up, and you move on. Together. So you can go and think that you’re some lone wolf, but you’re not. You’ve got us now, like it or not, and we’ve got you.' When 16 year-old Grace gives up her baby for adoption, she decides that the time has come to find out more about her own biological mother. Although her biological mum proves elusive, her search leads her to two half-siblings she never knew existed. Maya, 15, has been adopted by wealthy parents and seems to have the picture-perfect family – that is, if you look past her alcoholic mother and the fact that Maya stands out like a sore thumb. Older brother Joaquin hasn’t been so lucky. At

## Where this book is assigned

### National Book Award for Young People's Literature

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2017 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2017 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2017 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2017 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)

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