title: Where Are My Birth Parents?: A Guide for Teenage Adoptees
author:  Karen Gravelle 
description: Grade 9-12-- This valuable manual is for teenagers wishing to reunite with their birth parents, those who do not want to search, and those who are unsure of their feelings. It's of great practical and emotional benefit. The authors treat the adoption experience respectfully and tactfully; their writing is direct and free of jargon. Throughout the book, equal attention is given to biological and adoptive families, fathers, mothers, and siblings. The authors candidly acknowledge the anger, rage and frustration each person must feel. Foreign-born and mixed-race adoptees will need additional information beyond this solid, helpful beginning. Included are lists of search and support groups in the U. S. and abroad and counseling centers. A temperate and realistic book, this is an important addition to YA collections. --Anna Biagioni Hart, Sherwood Regional Library, Alexandria, VA<br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text:  
  Erika
   
  I'm finally ten years old my parents have been telling me all week that there's something they
  want to give me since I'm getting older that I deserve to know who my real family are.
   
  I been knowing that I was adopted since I was eight that's when they decided to tell me but they
  said I had to wait until I was ten to find out about my real family I'm a bit nervous and excited all
  at the same time. I walk down the stairs, and I hear my parents talking while I walk into the
  living room, and they both stop looking  and smiling at me.
   
  “Happy birthday sweetheart.” They say in unison.
   
  “Thank you.” I said with a smile. My dad patted his hand on the couch for me to sit. I walked
  over sitting down on the couch.
   
  “Sweetheart, you know you’re ten years old, and we told you when you turn ten you will learn
  about who your family is everything you need to know is in this envelope this is completely your
  choice on what you want to do if you would like to meet them or not it's all up to