A Secret Shared

NewberyMedal-winning author Patricia MacLachlan paints a moving portrait of what itmeans to be a family, the power of love, and the importance of bringing thetruth out into the light, in this beautiful and profound story about adoption. Noraand Ben's younger sister Birdy loves to keep secrets. She surprises her familymore than once: She hides a kitten in her room. She writes a beautiful poem. One day Birdy watches her mother spit into a tube, ready to send it off to findout more about herself and where her family came from.
Birdy spits into a tube, too, when no one sees her. Butwhen the test results come back, they are a surprise. Birdy is seemingly notrelated to Nora and Ben's parents. But if she is adopted, how could that havehappened without the children knowing?Noraand Ben must learn when to keep a secret, and who to go to for help-andeventually, how to solve this secret for the entire family.