Awards

• Commended for Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up) (Fiction) 2012
• Short-listed for Sasquatch Award 2015
• Short-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Children's) 2014

Overview

When a girl is adopted from a Chinese orphanage, everything she knew about family, best friends, and sisterhood must change. Wen has spent the first eleven years of her life at an orphanage in rural China, and the only person she would call family is her best friend, Shu Ling. When Wen is adopted by an American couple, she struggles to adjust to every part of her new life- having access to all the food and clothes she could want, going to school, being someone's daughter. But the hardest part of all is knowing that Shu Ling remains back at the orphanage, alone. Wen knows that her best friend deserves a family and a future, too. But finding a home for Shu Ling isn't easy, and time is running out . . .

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Reviews

Beautifully developed. . . . Heartfelt yet never sentimental. --Booklist

Wen's selflessness and determination are poignant but not overly sentimental, and the story's harsh truths about children in need are sensitively expressed. --Publishers Weekly

A moving and engaging experience for readers. A fine addition to both the coming-of-age genre and books sensitively dealing with cross-cultural adoption. --Kirkus Reviews

A heartwarming, un-put-down-able story about the kind of friendship that is more like family. <br>--Courtney Sheinmel, author of SINCERELY and POSITIVELY

Author Information

Carol Antoinette Peacock is the author of a number of picture books, including Mommy Far, Mommy Near and Pilgrim Cat. An adoptive mother of two daughters from China, she drew upon her own experiences to write Red Thread Sisters. Carol lives outside Boston, Massachusetts, where, besides being a writer, she's also a practicing psychologist.

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