chaosmavin 's review for:

The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke
4.0

Sometimes the world is too terrible so you get lost in a children's book about orphans. Man if I had read this as a kid I would have been so sad it wasn't a series. It was so very perfect from the stereotype twisting of the kids characters, to the solving problems together, and of course to the recognition that family is not about blood but about who is there for you when everything looks and feels hopeless. I am promptly buying copies for my two favorite 9 year olds.