Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye - by Lois Lowry (Paperback)

About the Book

Award-winning and best-selling author Lois Lowry explores issues surrounding adoption in this poignant novel.

Book Synopsis

Award-winning and best-selling author Lois Lowry explores issues surrounding adoption in this poignant novel.

Natalie Armstrong has everything: she's smart and beautiful, has the perfect boyfriend, early acceptance to college, and a loving family. But the summer she turns seventeen, she finally decides to ask some unanswered questions: Who are her biological parents and why did they give her up when she was born?

These questions take her on a journey from the deep woods of Maine to the streets of New York City, from the pages of old phone books and a tattered yearbook photo to the realization that she might actually meet her biological mother face-to-face.

But as Natalie unearths the truth, is she prepared for the woman she might find?

• A Classic Adoption Story: Natalie has a loving family, but an unshakeable need to understand her origins drives her to uncover the mystery of her birth.
• A Journey of Teen Identity: A seventeen-year-old girl with a seemingly perfect life confronts the one question that could change everything: Who am I, really?
• Poignant Mother-Daughter Relationships: Natalie risks hurting the mother who raised her to find the mother who gave her away, exploring the complex bonds of family.
• Uncovering the Past: Follow the clues from a tattered yearbook photo and dusty phone books on a search that leads from small-town Maine to the streets of New York City.

Review Quotes

"A sad and funny book about [a] . . . teenager who learns the meaning of loneliness and enters adulthood with the knowledge that one can indeed inherit the best of two worlds." Booklist, ALA, Starred Review

About the Author

Lois Lowry is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver. Visit her at www.loislowry.com.