Family Tree

<b>A family tree assignment leads an adopted girl to discover the different ways to be a family.</b> <p/>When her teacher gives her class a simple family tree assignment Ada is stumped. How can she make her family fit into this simple template? <p/>Ada is adopted. She can see where to put her parents on the tree but what about her birth mom? Ada has a biological sister but her sister has different adoptive parents -- where do they go on the tree? <p/>But with the help of her friends and family Ada figures it out. She creates her family tree . . . and so much more. <p/>Loosely based on the author's own experience this moving story explores the different ways families are created and how the modern family is more diverse and welcoming than ever before.