Tag Archives: Adoption
Monique Truong. Bitter in the Mouth. New York: Random House, 2010.
All of her adult life, Linda Hammerick has been asked “what it was like to grow up being Asian in the South.” Linda, adopted at the age of six by a white couple in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, has always … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Cleveland, Piedmont, Truong, Monique
Sarah Addison Allen. The Girl Who Chased the Moon. New York: Bantam Books, 2010.
Coming home can be a difficult process if the reasons you left in the first place were painful. Coming home to a small town like Mullaby, North Carolina where everyone seems to know all about you can be very awkward. … Continue reading
Doris Buchanan Smith. Moonshadow of Cherry Mountain. New York: Four Winds Press, 1982.
Greg and Moonshadow, his black Labrador Retriever, have lived on Cherry Mountain for six years, ever since they were adopted by the Rileys. They both love roaming the mountain, drinking from its crystal-clear streams and searching for wildlife. The two … Continue reading
Filed under 1980-1989, 1982, Children & Young Adults, Clay, Mountains, Smith, Doris Buchanan
Clay Carmichael. Wild Things. Honesdale, PA: Front Street, 2009.
Zoë and Mr. C’mere approach people the same way. Both are skeptical and skittish of others. Both are fiercely independent and would be more than happy to live alone. Both have been described as “feral.” However, there is one distinction: … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Carmichael, Clay, Children & Young Adults, Coastal Plain, Pitt, Scotland
Lori Foster. Say No To Joe? New York: Zebra, 2003.
Joe Winston is the type of guy that girls flock to. He has no problem with getting his pick of the litter until he meets Luna Clark. Luna knows better than to fall for Joe’s usually irresistible charms and, … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2003, Foster, Lori, Romance/Relationship
Sandra E. Bowen. This Day’s Madness. New York: iUniverse, 2000.
Trapeze artist Frankie is the young, orphaned star of the Doub Circus. When Frankie’s parents died they left her in the care of the circus owner and he and the other performers became her family. That Frankie is African American … Continue reading
Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, Bowen, Sandra E., Historical, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Piedmont
Louis Pendleton. Corona of the Nantahalas. New York: The Merriam Co., 1895.
Mr. Pendleton must have read the Bard of Avon because this book has many of the elements of a Shakespeare play: mistaken identity, confused lovers, a kidnapping, a child rescued from danger and raised by guardians. As a toddler, Corona … Continue reading
Filed under 1890-1899, 1895, Macon, Mountains, Novels to Read Online, Pendleton, Louis
Dana Sachs. If You Lived Here. New York: Harper Collins, 2007.
Wilmington resident and mortician’s wife Shelley Marino desperately wants a child and after several miscarriages and failed domestic adoptions, she begins trying to adopt a little boy from Vietnam. While this strains her relationship with her husband, it helps her … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Coast, New Hanover, Sachs, Dana
Linda Leigh Hargrove. The Making of Isaac Hunt. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2007.
This book tackles some big topics–adoption, racial stereotypes, family dynamics, and small-town secrets. Young NCSU student Isaac Hunt confronts them all after his dying grandfather tells him is not the child of the well-to-do and politically connected Chloe Hunt, but … Continue reading
Charles Frazier. Thirteen Moons. New York: Random House, 2006.
Loosely based on the life of frontiersman William Holland Thomas, narrator Will Cooper provides a detailed picture of life in western North Carolina in the early nineteenth-century. After working as a “bound boy” at a “trade post at the edge … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Frazier, Charles, Historical, Mountains
