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Painted warriors and wild lions
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Gilbert Morris |
When Duffy Kerrigan and her adopted brothers and sisters, who all come from different countries, accompany their widowed father on a trip to write about and photograph the Masai people in Africa, she… |
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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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Mommy far, Mommy near
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Carol Antoinette Peacock |
Elizabeth, who was born in China, describes the family who has adopted her and tries to sort out her feelings for her unknown mother. |
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Family Storms
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V. C. Andrews |
**In the eye of the storm . . .**
Living on the streets with her destitute mother, selling knickknacks and trinkets just to survive, Sasha Porter dreams of someday having a normal life, with a rea… |
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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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Edgar Allan
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John Neufeld |
When the Fickett family decides to adopt a little black boy, they are faced with threats, angry phone calls, a burning cross on the lawn, and an ultimatum from their oldest daughter. |
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The year of the baby
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Andrea Cheng,Patrice Barton |
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… |
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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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When Joel comes home
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Susi Gregg Fowler |
A little girl describes all the things she and her parents are planning to welcome home friends and their newly-adopted son. |
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Mei-Mei's lucky birthday noodles
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Chen, Shan Shan (Chef) |
On her sixth birthday, Mei Mei puts on a special new dress and helps her adoptive mother make a traditional birthday dish from Mei Mei's home country, China, to share with her loving family. Includes… |
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The Alex crow
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Andrew Smith |
Once again blending multiple story strands that transcend time and place, Grasshopper Jungle author Andrew Smith tells the story of 15-year-old Ariel, a refugee from the Middle East who is the sole s… |
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Bridget Wilder, spy-in-training
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Bernstein, Jonathan (Journalist) |
"An adopted middle child receives an unexpected package on an otherwise unremarkable birthday inviting her to join a super-secret division of the CIA"-- |
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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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Lola gets a cat
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Anna McQuinn |
More than anything Lola would like a cat, but first she must learn how to care for it. |
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Sister, missing
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Sophie McKenzie |
It's two years after the events of Girl, Missing and life is not getting any easier for sixteen-year-old Lauren, as exam pressure and a recent family tragedy take their toll. Lauren's birth mother ta… |
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Snowball
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Ellen Miles |
Charles and Lizzie Peterson are very good with puppies. They want one of their own, but their mom isn't ready for them to have one full time. So for now, they take care of puppies that need help fi… |
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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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My friend, my brother
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David Warren Swartley |
Twelve-year-old Eric Miller, a Mennonite, and Jon Simon become friends and then, through adoption, brothers. |
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