Award-Winning Book For Young Adults Probes What Makes A Family
Robin Benway's "Far From The Tree" focuses on three biological half-siblings who are raised under very different circumstances, but find each other as teenagers.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Robin Benway (@RobinBenway), whose book “Far From The Tree” just won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
The novel focuses on three biological half-siblings who are raised under very different circumstances, but find each other as teenagers.
Book Excerpt: ‘Far From The Tree’
By Robin Benway
Falling
Grace
Grace wasn’t one of those girls who was always fantasizing about homecoming.
She knew that she’d go, though. She figured that she and her best friend, Janie, would get dressed together, get their hair done together. She knew that her mom would try to
