A review by infosifter
Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye by Lois Lowry

4.0

Lois Lowry is brilliant at writing good books for kids about emotionally difficult subjects. In this story, Natalie has always known that she was adopted, but she knows nothing about her birth parents or how they came to give her up. Her loving adoptive parents don't understand why this matters so much to her, but they want to support her choices so they make it possible for her to go on a journey of discovery. Along the way, she learns important lessons about when to hold on to people,and when to let them go. Some of the big what-if questions regarding the potential pitfalls of learning about birth parents are broached rather harshly, but Natalie feels ready to handle any trauma that might result from the search. Much of this story is about how she seeks the answers she needs, but it also deals with how she copes with the answers once she finds them.