Transfiguring Adoption’s Overview:
The target audience appears to be children that are middle school age and up. I believe this book would be great for all families with teen or preteen boys and girls. This book is good for foster and adoptive families because it is engaging, full of action, and doesn’t shy away from hard topics. Percy deals with a bad relationship with a step-parent, the loss of relationship with his dad, problems at school because of learning and behavior issues and trouble making friends. These are topics that many foster and adoptive families of pre-teen and teenagers deal with on a daily basis.
I personally love this book and the entire series of books from this author. The writing keeps the story moving at a good pace and it is a great “starter book” for teens who are not interested in reading. The story revolves around Greek mythology and some of the stories and characters can be found in pop culture. They may even recognize a few of the heavy hitters like Zeus, Medusa, and Aphrodite. This book deserves five hoots because anyone over the age of 10 could sit down and enjoy themselves while reading.
While reading this book it is important to notice how Percy changes. He starts out as an mistrusting loner like many of our kids do when they come into care, but once he starts to develop trusting relationships his mindset begins to transform and he begins to understand …
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About the Reviewer: Steve Madole
I am an adoptive dad of three boys living near Grand Rapids, MI with my wife, our cats and dog. We also fostered many other children in the last 5 years! I have done many trainings with the Dr. Karen Purvis Institute and try to keep up on different trauma training’s monthly. My whole family nerds out on comic books, video games, movies and regular books! We often read a lot of the same comics and books which can lead to some awesome conversations!
**Transfiguring Adoption is a nonprofit organization seeking to nurture growth in foster and adoptive families by giving a HOOT about their families. Transfiguring Adoption does not intend for its reviewers nor its review to be professional, medical or legal advice. These reviews and discussion guides are intended to help parents to better be able to connect and understand their children who come from traumatic backgrounds.
