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21) Vee in between
Author
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...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A riveting tale from the author of The Orphanmaster about a wild girl from Nevada who lands in Manhattan{u2019}s Gilded Age society. Jean Zimmerman{u2019}s new novel tells of the dramatic events that transpire when an alluring, blazingly smart eighteen-year-old girl named Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple, and taken back East to be civilized and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Chung investigates the mysteries and complexities of her transracial adoption in this chronicle of unexpected family for anyone who has struggled to figure out where they belong.
Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. She was told her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling...
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Written by Melissa Guida-Richards -- a transracial, transnational, and late-discovery adoptee -- this book unpacks the mistakes you don't even know you're making and gives you the real-life tools to be the best parent you can be, to the child you love more than anything."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Meili loves hearing the story of how her parents flew far across the sea to China to adopt her. That's her special story. But when Meili finds out she has a new baby sister coming from Haiti, she isn't happy. Why can't her family stay the way it is? They're the perfect size. As she helps decorate the nursery and learns more about the baby, Meili comes to realize that a sister might be just right for their family too. A sweet story about adjusting...
26) Found
Author
Series
The missing volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Anna is concerned that her baby sister Kaylee, adopted from China three months ago, is not thriving so she and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project that may save the day.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and their connection is filled with love. She wonders about her...
Series
Shirley Temple collection volume 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Edward Morgan, rich trustee of an orphanage, meets and is entranced with little Elizabeth and her older sister Mary. He adopts them and they come to adore Edward. Mary falls in love with Edward, and he has the same feelings; Elizabeth plays matchmaker.
30) Gizmo
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 32
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After taking in Gizmo the Sheltie puppy, the Petersons learn this little puppy must have something to do before his energy destroys everything in Charles and Lizzie's house.
Author
Series
Edge of belonging volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In this dual-time narrative, Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee an estate sale but soon discovers her grandmother left behind more than trinkets and photo frames--she provided a path to the truth behind Ivy's adoption"--
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"Written by the director of an adoption agency and the author of The Children Money Can Buy, The Baby Market illustrates the dramatic changes that have taken place in infant adoption over the past two decades, resulting in what feels like a wild west of adoption in which money is the might that makes right and the law is very hard to find. The book follows the true stories of women who choose adoption for their babies, some of them making this choice...
36) The Alex crow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Ariel, a Middle Eastern refugee who lives with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber, the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century, and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow.
37) I am a wolf
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A dog who insists she is a wolf finds the perfect home with a young girl who sees past her prickly personality"--
39) Pablo's tree
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Each year on his birthday, a young Mexican American boy looks forward to seeing how his grandfather has decorated the tree he planted on the day the boy was adopted.
40) Cooper
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 35
Publisher
Scholastic Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Charles meets Cooper, a spunky Corgi, while rehearsing for a play, and needs the little dog in order to stay comfortable while onstage.
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