Relative Strangers

Gr 9 Up—Eighteen-year-old Jules is on a hunt to find a baby picture for her senior yearbook. She thought that this would be simple, but soon finds herself having trouble locating any picture before she was three years old. She wouldn't put it past her ex-addict mother to not take pictures of her in her first few years of life, but she finds it bizarre and she is determined to know why. Digging in the uncharted territory that is her mother's closet, she finds something that would change her life forever; foster care papers, with her name on them. Jules, in a fog of questions, is adamant about finding answers to her past. She finds her foster brother on Facebook. Jules learns that she once had a loving mother, father, and brother. Feeling betrayed, she dreams of what could have been and sets out to get her questions answered. She meets her foster family and they are all she's ever dreamed of—but what she wasn't expecting is to develop feelings for her foster brother. These feelings eat away at her, and her decisions will affect everyone in her life. This is a fast-paced, captivating novel from beginning to end. Readers won't be able to put this book down.