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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Growing up, Mallory "Mouse" Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent years being homeschooled by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her senior year at a public high school. The first day, she runs into Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her childhood, and Mallory realizes that their bond never really faded. But as Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory faces...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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Haunting of Sunshine girl volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
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Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and inside jokes. But from the moment they arrive, Sunshine feels her world darken with an eeriness she cannot place. And even if Kat doesn't recognize it, Sunshine knows that something...
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Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Daniel loves birds, and wants to learn how to whistle as a gift for his new adoptive baby sister Angela. On the day of her adoption, Daniel still can't whistle. It is through meeting Jessie, Angela's birthmother, that Daniel may learn the trick to whistle like the birds he loves."--
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Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Vee's favorite story is the day she met her parents. When Vee was still a baby, they flew to China to adopt her and bring her home. But when she struggles to keep up in Chinese dance class, Vee longs for a closer connection with her birth culture. At the same time, people in her community make Vee feel out of place in her own family. Vee wants to embrace every part of herself, but it's hard when she feels like she has to choose. With help from another...
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Publisher
NubeOcho
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Adopted children are very wanted. A sweet story to talk about the long wait for the parents. The arrival of the child and the happiness of the family. One of the few picture books that talk about adoption in such a beautiful way. A both that is both beautiful and necessary.
Los nįos adoptados son muy buscados. Una dulce historia para hablar sobre la larga espera para los padres. La llegada del nįo y la felicidad de la familia. Uno de los pocos...
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Series
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PawPrints Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Jeet. su perrita Choco y su Papá están en el parque acuático local para hacer de voluntarios en un evento de adopción del refugio para animales. Después de terminar de ayudar, es hora de ir a algunas altracciones, incluido el mejor tobogán de agua. ¡Bieen! Pero antes de que les toque el turno, tendrán que aprender los valores sij de la paciencia y la compasión.
Jeet, his puppy Fudge, and their Dad are at the local waterpark to volunteer...
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Publisher
Kaepernick Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An inspiring story of identity and self-esteem from celebrated athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick. When Colin Kaepernick was five years old, he was given a simple school assignment: draw a picture of yourself and your family. What young Colin does next with his brown crayon changes his whole world and worldview, providing a valuable lesson on embracing and celebrating his Black identity through the power of radical self-love and knowing your inherent...
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Series
Izzy volume 1
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Seven-year-old Isabel is an adopted, only child, who lives with her single mom and her nanny, Rosa. Isabel's best friend is Zoë. Zoë adores the shenanigans they get up to together, EXCEPT when it gets them into trouble, which does happen now and then! Getting into trouble is Zoë's idea of CATASTROPHE. Each time it happens, it means the friendship is on the rocks -- freeze-out time. Whenever this happens, it's really tough on Isabel, who desperately...
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Series
Publisher
Paw Prints Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Jeet y su cachorro Fudge adoran leer libros y desearían poder hacer más amigos a los que también les guste leer. Inspirados por otro niño sij que practica su seva (su desinteresado acto de bondad) al donar libros a personas necesitadas, Jeet y Fudge establecen salir con su mamá y papá para retribuir a su comunidad. ¿Podría atraer a algunos compañeros de lectura también?"--
"Jeet and his puppy Fudge love to read books and wish they could...
13) Face the night
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Once, Catriona Macgregor led a charmed life. Daughter of a wealthy rancher, pretty and educated, she looked forward to all the world had to offer--until fate took a turn. Now family, home, and even her name have been stripped away. As 'Black Cat Whitfield,' adopted daughter of an outlaw, she's wanted by the authorities. It certainly wasn't the destiny she imagined--especially as one of the Blessed. The Blessed, rare people like Cat, are supposed...
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Publisher
JY
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"I'm not her babysitter... Having a little sister isn't easy - she takes my soda, follows me around, and wants to tag along with me and my friends. Worse, she always gets her way with our parents! Sometimes I wonder if I was adopted just to look after her. (I know, it doesn't make sense.) Going to middle school means at least she can't bother me there. I'll have plenty of time to practice to become MVP of the basketball team and maybe even...get a...
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Series
Gifted clans volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen year-old Riley was not born to be a leader, but the magical community thinks she and her adopted brother, Dahl, are meant to lead the world into the Age of the Final Eclipse, so now the one thing Riley must do is believe in herself.
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