My Life Off-Key - (Orca Anchor) by Gail Anderson-Dargatz (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Seventeen-year-old Jen is shocked to discover that the dad she grew up with is not her biological father.
- 12 Years
- 7.3" x 4.9" Paperback
- 96 Pages
- Young Adult Fiction, Family
- Series Name: Orca Anchor
Description
About the Book
In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Jen learns that her mom has been keeping a secret: Jen has a biological father who isn't the dad she grew up with. Now this secret threatens to tear their family apart.Book Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Jen is shocked to discover that the dad she grew up with is not her biological father.
Jen loves to sing. But the rest of her family can't carry a tune. When a stranger named Mike gives her roses at her concert and reveals that he is her birth father, Jen's world flips upside down. Mike is a musician, just like Jen, and now she understands why she looks nothing like Steve, the only dad she's ever known.
When Steve learns the truth Jen's mom has been hiding all these years, he moves out, and Jen can't help but feel responsible. Worse, she doesn't know who she is anymore. It feels like her whole life has been a lie. Is Steve still her dad? What about Mike? When it feels like her family is falling apart, Jen doesn't know where she belongs.
This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for teen readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don't like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Review Quotes
"The plot was immediate, with no time for the reader to lose interest."
-- "CM: Canadian Review of Materials""Both a coming-of-age story and a road map for processing difficult emotions."
-- "Kirkus Reviews"About the Author
Gail Anderson-Dargatz is the award-winning author of over a dozen books, including The Cure for Death by Lightning and A Recipe for Bees, which were finalists for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She has also written a number of short novels for striving readers, including the Orca Currents titles Bigfoot Crossing and Iggy's World, both JLG Gold Standard Selections, and The Ride Home, which was shortlisted for a BC and Yukon Book Prize. Gail lives in the Shuswap region of British Columbia.