Get Real

by Betty Hicks

• ISBN13: 9781596430891
• ISBN10: 1596430893
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2006-09-05
• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press

Summary

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?"

Author Biography

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.