Finding miracles
Finding miracles is about a teenage girl that was adopted by a family and she meet a boy named Pablo and her life changed. This teenage girl is called molly Kaufman she is living in Vermont. She was failing English class so she decided to go into English class to make up those credits. She will always get these strange rashes because she couldn’t be herself. His exotic accent, strange fashion sense, and intense interest in Milly force her to confront her identity as an adopted child from Pablo's native country. As their relationship grows, Milly decides to undertake a courageous journey to her homeland and along the way discovers the story of her birth is intertwined with the story of a country recovering from a brutal history. There is this box that her “parents” will always tell her to look in which that box contained all the things about her old life which was when she was in that orphanage.

Teen book about a Latina girl who is adopted as a baby by an American family and her journey to find herself as a teenager ( )

I always forget that this word means Miracles. I just think of the movie the Milagros Bean Fields War (which I never actually saw). Quite a few (all right, two off the top of my head) of the books that I've read this past weekend deal with adolescents figuring out their place in their family mostly because they do not biologically belong to both parents.

This story, Finding Miracles, by Julia Alvarez is a lovely story about a family finding its place and the the main character figuring out her whole self, in terms of her, her family and the country of her birth. I cried.
Originally posted July 8, 2007

I listened to this as an audio book, performed by the actress who played Mimi in the original cast of Rent. She made me really enjoy the story and care about the characters. The role of storytelling in Latino culture is evident in this tale. A great title. ( )