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Star of the Week
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Darlene Friedman |
As her turn to be "Star of the Week" in her kindergarten class approaches, Cassidy-Li puts together a poster with pictures of her family, friends, and pets, and wonders about her birthparents in Chin… |
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Take me with you
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Carolyn Marsden |
Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated. |
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Double play at short
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Matt Christopher |
Twelve-year-old Danny thinks that there is something very familiar about the girl who plays shortstop on the team he faces during the championship series, and his curiosity leads him to a surprising … |
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Bad kitty meets the baby
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Nick Bruel |
Bad kitty is not pleased when a baby joins her family. Includes fun facts and tips for training a cat to perform tricks. |
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Abby
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Jeannette Franklin Caines,Steven Kellogg |
Pre-school Abby enjoys her special place in the family as the adopted child. |
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How to Save a Life
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Sara Zarr |
Jill MacSweeney just wishes everything could go back to normal. But ever since her dad died, she’s been isolating herself from her boyfriend, her best friends—everyone who wants to support her. And w… |
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Princess Alice
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Nina Bawden |
An adopted daughter who sometimes feels she doesn't fit into her large untidy English family, reevaluates her position after a visit with her real father, an African prince. |
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Year of mistaken discoveries
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Eileen Cook |
Partnered with a boy named Brody, high school senior Avery embarks on a class project to find her birth mother after Avery's former best friend, also adopted, dies. |
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Autofocus
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Lauren Gibaldi |
"A senior photography project gives Maude the perfect opportunity to search for more information about her birth mother--but she may not like what she finds"-- |
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Youn Hee & Me
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C. S. Adler |
Caitlin finds out that bringing her adopted Korean brother's eleven-year-old sister into their home requires patience and understanding, but gradually they become a real family. |
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Pick a pup
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Marsha Wilson Chall |
After observing different types of dogs in his neighborhood, Sam and Gram go to the local pet shelter to choose a puppy. |
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No Contact (Lorimer Sports Stories)
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Sandra Diersch |
If only Debbie's adoptive mother, Angie, could be more like Debbie's hockey coach. Coach Steph loves hockey, while Debbie's mother plays the piano and does yoga, two things that Debbie definitely doe… |
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Wolfie the bunny
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Dyckman, Ame |
Families of all kinds will delight in this sweet tale of new babies, sibling rivalry, bravery, unconditional love ... and veggies! The Bunny family has adopted a wolf son, and daughter Dot is the onl… |
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The story I'll tell
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Nancy Tupper Ling |
A story of international adoption in which a mother weaves a magical web of tales to explain how her child came to be part of the family. |
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The marvelous magic of Miss Mabel
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Natasha Lowe |
When Mabel is accepted to the prestigious witch school, Ruthersfield Academy, she excels at the magic curriculum but is constantly in trouble for experimenting and inventing her own potions. One day … |
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Edgar Allan
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John Neufeld |
Written from the point of view of a 12 year old boy, this is the story of what happens to a middle-class, suburban white family that decides to adopt a black child. |
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Lulu and the Hamster in the Night
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Hilary McKay,Priscilla Lamont |
"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"-- |
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The Scariest Night
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Betty Ren Wright |
When her family decides to spend the summer in Milwaukee so that her adopted brother can perfect his genius at a special piano school, Erin finds herself consumed with jealousy and turns to a medium … |
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A brief chapter in my impossible life
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Dana Reinhardt |
Simone's starting her junior year in high school. Her mom's a lawyer for the ACLU, her dad's a political cartoonist, so she's grown up standing outside the organic food coop asking people to sign pet… |
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Lucy's family tree
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Karen Halvorsen Schreck |
Lucy, an adopted child from Mexico, is convinced that her family background is too complicated for her to make the family tree she is supposed to create for a homework assignment. |
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