2 Books by Betty Hicks
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Overview: Betty Hicks says, "I’m adopted, but I’ve never wanted to search for my birth parents. I did want to explore the different ways of affirming your own identity, adopted or not." She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, and is the author of "Out of Order," praised as "humorous and insightful" by Publishers Weekly in a starred review.
Genre: Children, YA Fiction
Get Real: Dez is unusually neat. Her mom and dad are unusually messy. They like Cheez Whiz and swamps. Dez likes elegant food and grand pianos. How can she even be related to them? And how can Dez help her best friend, Jil, who’s adopted and who will stop at nothing in order to meet her birth mom? What is it, exactly, that makes a parent "real," anyway? Get Real is about wanting a parent who is very different from the one you have. It’s about discovering, "Who am I?"
Out of Order: "We’ll have fun," Mom pleaded. "You’ve always wanted a brother–" "A younger brother," said Parker. "I wanted a younger brother." "But Eric is great. He’ll-" "You don’t get it, Mom. I’ve always been the youngest. Now I’m going to be even younger!"
Before her mom remarried, Lily was the eldest; now she has dropped to second from the bottom. Her 13-year-old stepsister, V, is brilliant, popular, and seriously beautiful, but "lately she’s been toxic waste." That, however, is only Lily’s viewpoint. Hicks tells her uproarious story in fast, alternating narratives from the four stepsiblings, who suddenly find themselves together in a blended family. Along with all the jealousy and hurt, they still have fun, as when they hold a rock-paper-scissors competition for a neighborhood fund-raiser. There’s also a little puzzle. Who has destroyed the tomatoes that V has been growing to raise money to send soccer balls to kids in Iraq? Without heavy message, the switching viewpoints make readers privy to the family secrets and the lies, as the combination of farce and tenderness in daily life brings home both the struggle and the fun.
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