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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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Secret Daughter
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Shilpi Somaya Gowda |
On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl. But in a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her newborn daughter's life is to give he… |
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The great call of China
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Cynthea Liu |
In this novel for teens, 16-year-old Cece goes to China in an attempt to discover her roots and possibly find out about her birth parents. Born in China, but adopted at age 2 and living in Texas, Cec… |
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Dim Sum, bagels, and grits
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Myra Alperson |
"... guides adoptive parents (and parents-to-be) on the journey toward creating a family that represents more than one culture."--cover. |
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Emma's story
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Deborah Hodge |
When Emma sets out to make a cookie family with Grandma and Sam, the happy afternoon suddenly turns sad. The cookies are meant to look like her family, but Emma's is the only one with dark hair and e… |
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Until we all come home
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Kim de Blecourt |
"De Blecourt's riveting first-person account of her battle to free her adopted son from a corrupt regime reveals the abiding power of God's protective care"--Provided by the publisher. |
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Make me a mother
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Susanne Antonetta |
Relates how the author and her husband adopted a six-month-old boy from South Korea and the lessons they had to learn as parents, including how to incorporate aspects of another culture and how to di… |
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Escape from Saigon
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Andrea Warren |
Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the a… |
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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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Half a world away
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Cynthia Kadohata |
Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to ad… |
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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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Last Sons of America
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Phillip Kennedy Johnson |
1 volume (unpaged) : 26 cm |
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You were always in my heart
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Mary Beth Chapman |
An abandoned Chinese baby who has been befriended by a ladybug finds her way to an orphanage where she is eventually adopted by an American family. |
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Adopter un enfant à l'étranger
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Gilles Dumoulin |
Un couple qui a adopté deux enfants explique les procédures à suivre au Québec pour l'adoption internationale. |
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Tremblement de mère
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Diane Lavoie |
Bonjour, J'ai adopté une petite Haïtienne dans le désastre du séisme. Elle est arrivée à trois ans, encore endeuillée de la vie qu'elle avait perdue, presque sans transition entre sa famille et moi, … |
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Adoption is forever
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Rhonda Pollero |
"One of the authors writes of the painful, yet remarkable decision to give up a child and describes the manner in which both the adoptive and biological families work together. The other author descr… |
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Our baby from China
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Nancy D'Antonio |
An American couple goes to China to adopt a baby. |
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The red blanket
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Eliza Thomas |
Tells the story of a single woman who goes to China to adopt a baby. Based on the author's life. |
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Transracial adoption
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Constance Pohl |
Explores the issues related to interracial and international adoptions, using interviews with black, biracial, Asian, and Hispanic young people who were adopted into white or biracial families. |
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Grace from China
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Jacqueline A. Kolosov |
While still trying to deal with her father's death, ninth grader Jess Flynn goes to China with her mother and a group of other families to adopt baby girls. |
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