Name: Ana V. 's review of Emily Out of Focus by Miriam Spitzer Franklin
Item: Emily Out of Focus
Rating: 5
Author: Ana V.

Miriam Spitzer Franklin

Twelve-year-old Emily is flying with her parents to China to adopt and bring home a new baby sister. She’s excited but nervous to travel across the world and very aware that this trip will change her entire life. And the cracks are already starting to show the moment they reach the hotel—her parents are all about the new baby, and have no interest in exploring. In the adoption trip group, Emily meets Katherine, a Chinese-American girl whose family has returned to China to adopt a second child. The girls eventually become friends and Katherine reveals a secret: she’s determined to find her birth mother, and she wants Emily’s help. New country, new family, new responsibilities—it’s all a lot to handle, and Emily has never felt more alone. From the author of Extraordinary and Call Me Sunflower, Emily Out of Focus is a warm and winning exploration of the complexity of family, friendship, and identity that readers will love.

Emily Out of Focus

Jackie gee

Ana V. 

Amazing writing and storytelling. Such a great voice and crafted novel. I'm amazed at all the detailed information and emotion from this story in such a fast pace middle-grade novel. One of the best I've read in the past five years.
This novel is rich in so many ways: the story of the adoption, the cultural shock, dealing with becoming a big sister in such circumstances, wanting to know where you come from... Fantastic.

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