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Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, a division of Andrews McMeel Universal
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
We think of shelter dogs as sad, rejected souls living behind cold metal bars. Shuster puts shelter dogs in a brand new light: each dog is featured in photo-booth style photographs, each accompanied by a short story about the dog's personality; how the dog ended up in the shelter; and the adoption date.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Erin Powers navigates growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee being raised by a white, closeted lesbian mother. Based on the author's experience.
Two girls on different timelines -- each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee -- find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences. -- adapted from jacket...
Author
Series
Life of a cactus volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A bookstore owner in a seaside village on coastal Maine is shocked when the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption thirty-seven years prior arrives at her door and the pair attempt to forge a new relationship.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Foster care and adoption can be rewarding ways to become parents. But the system itself seems almost rigged for failure, confusion, fraud, and disappointment. This book takes readers on an insider's tour of the system, its successes and failures, and the joys adoption can bring through the real stories of those involved on all sides.
67) The family tree
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A young girl grapples with the feeling of being without a people when she realizes she cannot fill out her family tree for school."--
Author
Language
English
Description
Kendra's first novel was a huge success, but now she's on a deadline and cannot write a thing. Her attention is consumed with a letter from an anonymous reader, who seems to know exactly how much Kendra's novel was based on past summers in Hidden Lake, MN. Cami Rainier was adopted from Korea by a famous novelist, and she and Kendra spent many magical summers imagining on the lake, until Cami's parents adopted a teenager named Tyler with a troubled...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Enjoying her loving family life and career successes, Kate Vaughn anticipates a marriage proposal from her boyfriend and realizes that she cannot move forward until she reconnects with a past love and the daughter they gave up for adoption years earlier.
Author
Series
Lulu (Hilary McKay) volume 6
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Seven-year-old Lulu adopts a hamster and must keep it a secret from her grandmother when she and her cousin Mellie spend the night"--
73) Boomer
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 38
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Lizzie gets a call about a big, mixed-breed puppy that needs a place to stay, she must try to take care of him without ruining her mom's plans to have friends stay over for a long weekend.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She and her husband live in San Diego, where they hope to soon adopt a baby. But the process terrifies her. As the questions and background checks come one after another, Molly worries that the truth she's kept hidden about her North Carolina childhood will rise to the surface and destroy not only her chance at adoption, but her marriage as well. She ran away from her family twenty years ago after a...
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