Fourteen-year-old Lizzie is adopted, but it is something she is not comfortable discussing with others, although she wants to, until a tragic accident makes her realize that it is not something to be ashamed of....
An adopted teen's search for her birth mother is overshadowed by a wrenching loss, dramatically told through her poems and journals.
Lizzie McLane, the adopted poet-heroine of the widely acclaimed The Secret of Me, is now a high school senior,...Against the odds, eighteen-year-old Liz McLane, adoptee and aspiring poet, searches for her birth mother in this sensitive and daring novel told through her own accessible and moving poems and journal entries. A student at NYU in Greenwich Vill...