num_pages: 416
description: From the acclaimed author of Three Things I Know Are True comes a new novel in verse a deeply emotional story about an adopted teenager exploring the meaning of family friendship and love in all its many forms.Perfect for fans of Robin Benway Cynthia Hand and Jandy Nelson Rynns journey shows how complicated and infuriating yet healing family can be.When Rynn was born her birth mother named her Scheherazade. Its one of the only things Rynn has from her. Now sixteen Rynn and her adoptive parents live on a small garlic farm in central Maine. Rynns father is kind and gentle but oblivious to Rynns mothers temper and coldness toward their daughter.Rynn has longed to know her birth family for years. She cant legally open her adoption records until she turns eighteen but that wont stop her from searching on her own. She finds out that though her birth mother has died she has a younger sisterwhos in foster care two towns away. But if Rynn reconnects with her biological sister it may drive her adoptive family apart for good.
language: English
title: The Name She Gave Me
publisher: HarperTeen