Match Found

Charlie has a plan, a houseplant, and a phone at 3% battery.

She is ten. She is biracial, her parents are white, and she has never doubted for one second that they love her. She has also never met a single person with hair like hers.

Then her aunt shows up at Christmas with DNA kits for the whole family. Charlie spits in a tube and forgets about it, until the results come back with a close match. Her name is Beverly. She runs a flower shop in Charlotte, two bus rides away.

Charlie does not ask permission. She does not recommend this.

What she finds in that flower shop answers one question and starts about a hundred more. Who else is out there? Do they want to be found? And how do you tell the two people who raised you that you went looking, when you love them and still needed to know?

Funny, honest, and told in a voice you'll hear long after the last page, Match Found is a novel about a girl who learns that wanting answers doesn't mean loving anyone less, and that a family can get bigger without anybody having to move over.

Inspired by the author's own DNA match. For readers ages 9 to 12 and the adults who love them.