Mother Number Zero
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Publication Year
2011
ISBN
9781554980789
Pages
179 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
When Fay meets a fascinating girl named Maud who asks him what it is like to be adopted, he finds himself wondering about his Bosnian birth-mother and why she gave him up, so with the help of his parents he sets out to answer his questions.
Grade Level
6-8
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Culture/Ethnicity; Adoption; Multiracial; Multicultural; adopted children; adoptive family; interracial/transracial adoption; international adoption; multiracial family; birth parents; different cultures; multicultural family
Main Character
male child
Race/Ethnicities
Bosnian / Chinese / Dutch
Family Formation
adoptive mother and father
Awards
Society of School Librarians International Book Awards, 2011, Honor, Language Arts K-6 Novels
Keywords
elementary school; questions; abandoned; Bosnian conflict; feelings; finding your birth parents; new girl
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Hof, Marjolijn; Prins, Johanna W.; and Prins, Johanna Henrica, "Mother Number Zero" (2011). Diverse Families. 439.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/439