In this book, The Language of Flowers, Victoria was given up to foster care just weeks after she was born. She's been to over thirty-two homes and she doesn't seem to take interest in anything. Victoria has one more change before she gets put into a group home and adoption is out of the question. She's 9 when she comes to live with Elizabeth. Elizabeth live on a grape vineyard in the country. Victoria doesn't like her new home so she does things to make her new possible mother give her back. She acts out at school, hits the bus driver and gets suspended, puts a cactus in Elizabeth's shoe, and ruins bushels of her wine grapes but nothing is working. Elizabeth is determined to keep her. It takes five months for Victoria to finally like Elizabeth. Victoria is then taken out of school and is now home schooled. Her and Elizabeth come up with a daily schedule. Victoria and Elizabeth start to learn everything here is about flowers and their meanings, the language of the flowers. So one day Elizabeth takes Victoria to San Francisco to buy a dress for her tenth birthday and for her court date which is in a couple days. The court requires Elizabeth to keep Victoria a year before the adoption is final. A week or so later Victoria gets up puts her dress on and waits in the kitchen for Elizabeth. When she doesn't come out Victoria goes to her room to get her But Elizabeth doesn't want to get. She says she couldn't be her mother and that it wouldn't be a good family. A few hours later Meredith, Victoria's social worker comes to the house. She's about to take Victoria but Elizabeth decides to keep her. She gets another court date in six months, one that she can't miss.
Next in the book, it jumps to when she's eighteen. Victoria can't find a place to stay or work and she becomes homeless.
This as far as I got in the book.
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