Somebody's Girl

By Maggie De Vries

Martha knows she is adopted, but she's well-loved and popular, at least until her mother gets pregnant and she feels her parents' attention start to shift. Upset and confused, Martha lashes out at and loses her friends. She also makes no secret about her annoyance at being forced to do a school project about sturgeon with Chance, a difficult boy whose foster parents are family friends. To add insult to injury, Martha's birth mother announces that she is getting married and moving away. Now Martha isn't number one in anybody's life. When her mom goes into labor prematurely, Martha realizes that she needs to figure out a way to be a better friend and daughter, and a great sister.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Release date: May 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781554693849

Maggie De Vries

MAGGIE DE VRIES’s novel, Hunger Journeys, won the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and was called “historical fiction at its best” by CM magazine. She has written seven other works for young readers, as well as Missing Sarah, a memoir about her sister, a victim of serial killer Robert Pickton, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. A former children’s book editor and a writer-in-residence for the Vancouver Public Library, she now focuses on her own writing and teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia and. She lives in Vancouver.

Reviews for Somebody's Girl

[1n-5 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This short novel helps students understand friendships and acceptance. Well suited for children in grade 4-6.

[ydenomy_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This short novel helps students understand friendships and acceptance. Well suited for children in grade 4-6.