The Name She Gave Me

 By: Betty Culley

Location: FIC CUL

Genre: Family, Adoption, Novel verse 

'The Name She Gave Me' is a fascinating book about adoption, family struggles, and finding your own identity. It offers lots of deep lessons about how life is precious and more meaningful than anything else, but also respect other people's feelings and situation. As some of the topics related to me a lot, this book really helped me feel positive about myself. 😇🌸

From the acclaimed author of Three Things I Know Are True comes a new novel in verse, a deeply emotional story about an adopted teenager exploring the meaning of family, friendship, and love in all its many forms.

Perfect for fans of Robin Benway, Cynthia Hand, and Jandy Nelson, Rynn’s journey shows how complicated and infuriating, yet healing, family can be.

When Rynn was born, her birth mother named her Scheherazade. It’s one of the only things Rynn has from her. Now sixteen, Rynn and her adoptive parents live on a small garlic farm in central Maine. Rynn’s father is kind and gentle but oblivious to Rynn’s mother’s temper and coldness toward their daughter.

Rynn has longed to know her birth family for years. She can’t legally open her adoption records until she turns eighteen, but that won’t stop her from searching on her own. She finds out that though her birth mother has died, she has a younger sister—who’s in foster care two towns away. But if Rynn reconnects with her biological sister, it may drive her adoptive family apart for good.