Three Black Swans Background information: Links to help you better understand

http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-cooney-caroline.asp
The author of my book Three Black Swans is Caroline B. Cooney. This is a website leading to her author profile. It gives you her personal background and discusses some of her books.

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=2296
This is a short biography of Caroline B. Cooney. It discusses her childhood and why she wanted to begin writing. It also includes a picture of Cooney herself.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7295079-three-black-swans
A very short summary of the book. It's sort of what is printed on the back of the book. It doesn't give any spoiling details.

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A picure of a map of New York and Connecticut. Missy and Claire live in seperate towns in Connecticut. Genevive lives in New York.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
The title of the book is actually a metaphor for the three girls. The metaphor is also discussed in the book. This gives a better explanation.

http://kmci.org/alllifeisproblemsolving/archives/the-black-swan-metaphor/
This is an article also discussing the Black Swan Theory. It gives other examples of "Black Swan" occurances. It gives you a better idea of the metaphor.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1101746/A-truly-unbreakable-bond-Twins-separated-birth-lived-miles-apart-30-years-came-twist-fate-.html
An article talking about the true story of real identical twins seperated at birth. It is similar to the book not only for that fact but because they lived very close together but never knew each other. This is like Claire and Missy to Genevive.

http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-03-04/news/17480641_1_friend-adopted-birthday-celebration
Anothe true story about twins being seperated at birth. It discusses their similarities when they met, such as how Claire and Missy and Genevive were so similar. It also discusses their different upbringings.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23431996-shock-for-the-married-couple-who-discovered-they-are-twins-separated-at-birth.do
I just found this article interesting and somewhat relevant. It's about twins seperated at birth discovering each other. The twist? They married each other before they realized it.

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20077622,00.html
This true story about adult triplet's finding each other is similar to the book. First, two of the three met each other, then the third one found them by media ways. In the story, he found out from a newspaper. In the book, Genevive found out through the internet.

http://letsrollforums.com/9-11-triplets-separated-t22106.html?s=bb370ac21448adc0c59c3959e56eb579&
This story gives you an idea of what could have happened if the triplet's never found out they were triplets. This is a story about adult triplets who had never met each other all dying on the same day in the attacks of September 11th. It's crazy how fate works sometimes.

http://www.tripletconnection.org/
This is parenting website offering help to parents with multiples. Genevive's parents were the biological parents of the three girls. This website could have been something their parents would have looked at that led to their decision to have adoptions for the two other girls.

http://www.scienceupdate.com/2007/01/identical-triplets/
An interview with a scientist discussing identical triplets. They discuss the odds of it happening naturally. It also includes the radio interview.

http://multiples.about.com/od/funfacts/a/identicaltwins.htm
This article includes general information about identicals. It discusses the process by which the egg splits. It also discusses similarities that multiples inevitably will have.

http://multiples.about.com/od/funfacts/tp/10thingsabouttwins.htm
This website is a collection of frequently asked questions about twins, therefore it would apply to triplets. Very informational and answers many questions you may have about twins and triplets. Some of these questions were the same questions Claire, Missy, and Genevive asked themselves when finding out about each other.

http://multiples.about.com/od/funfacts/a/twintelepathy.htm
Many times Claire and Missy had weird occurances where they thought they were thinking the same thing. This article discusses whether of not twins have telepathy. It gives a scientific explantion for the weird occurances that Missy and Claire had.

http://multiples.about.com/od/funfacts/a/twinbirthrate.htm
This link gives statistics about twins and mulitples. It talks about how many times multiples have been born. It also gives statistics about the death rate and race factors of multiples.

http://www.theadoptionguide.com/process/
This is a link to the adoption process followed in adoptions today. It gives a timeline of what should be happening from the baby's development to its birth and after that. It also gives advice to adoptee's. Claire and Missy were adopted.

http://family-law.freeadvice.com/family-law/adoption_law/illegal_adoption.htm
This link discusses what makes an adoption illegal. Missy was adopted illegally in the terms that her papers granting legal guardianship were never filled out. On the other hand, Claire's papers were somewhat legit.

http://www.emkpress.com/rollingsguide.html
This is a true story about how an illegal adoption impacted a family. Many times Missy's legal papers were needed to start school or for security purposes and Missy's family always had to make up excuses. This is an example of what could have happened to her and her family if their illegal guardianship ever surfaced.