|
Nine-story pagodas and double-decker buses
|
Gilbert Morris |
During the Kerrigan family's trip to Hong Kong, Duffy and her adopted siblings befriend and share their Christian faith with two orphaned children who have come to live with their Chinese grandparent… |
OL14854744W |
|
Painted warriors and wild lions
|
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… |
OL14854753W |
|
Buckingham Palace and the Crown Jewels (Adventures of the Kerrigan Kids #2)
|
Gilbert Morris |
Traveling with their father to England, the Kerrigan Kids quickly learn the differences between life in America and England, such as cars driving on the 'wrong' side of the road. While the rest of th… |
OL14854871W |
|
Abela
|
Berlie Doherty |
Roman de société
Abela vit en Tanzanie. Ses parents et sa petite sœur viennent de mourir du sida. Abela n'a plus que sa grand-mère « Bibi ». Son oncle, Thomas qui veut obtenir des papiers pour vivre… |
OL14963058W |
|
ONE SMALL SACRIFICE
|
DeMeyer, Trace A |
…her ground-breaking memoir includes tribal representatives testifying to the US Senate in 1976 concerning the Indian Adoption Projects, operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Child Welfare… |
OL15165233W |
|
Dim Sum, bagels, and grits
|
Myra Alperson |
"... guides adoptive parents (and parents-to-be) on the journey toward creating a family that represents more than one culture."--cover. |
OL15835794W |
|
Vindens son
|
Henning Mankell |
In the 1870s, Hans Bengler arrives in Cape Town from Sweden, driven by a singular desire: to discover an insect no one has seen before and name it after himself. But then he impulsively adopts a youn… |
OL158634W |
|
A place in the world
|
Malcolm Frierson |
"Set in Baltimore, Ghana, and rural Georgia, a novel of love, marriage, betrayal, divorce, discovery, African heritage, international adoption, racism, and tragedy unfolds. Kwame and Evelyn adopt Kof… |
OL15933560W |
|
Edgar Allan
|
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. |
OL16037893W |
|
Family tree
|
Pierre Coran |
A girl describes her relatives from Great-grandmother Allegra through aunts and uncles to her cousins and how she came to have her own special place on the family tree. |
OL1636963W |
|
Red thread sisters
|
Carol Antoinette Peacock |
After an American family adopts eleven-year-old Wen from a Chinese orphanage, she vows to find a family for her best friend, too. |
OL17929418W |
|
Make me a mother
|
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… |
OL18021335W |
|
Escape from Saigon
|
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… |
OL1813141W |
|
An American face
|
Jan M. Czech |
Adopted from Korea by American parents, Jessie excitedly waits for the day he will get his American citizenship and, he thinks, an American face. |
OL1988426W |
|
Retrieving Isaac & Jason
|
Elliott Foster |
In this heartwarming tale, Kai the Minnesota-born yellow Labrador Retriever recounts how she and her two dads adopted her human brothers. With a unique canine perspective, we learn about the arrival … |
OL24848037W |
|
Growing up adopted
|
Maxine B. Rosenberg |
Fourteen adoptees of various ages describe their experiences and feelings about being adopted and their relationships with their adopted and, in some cases, their birth families. |
OL3257989W |
|
Transracial adoption
|
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. |
OL4283642W |
|
A Mercy
|
Toni Morrison,Jordi Fibla Feito |
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize--winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.In the 1680s the slave tra… |
OL50560W |
|
The adoption experience
|
Steven L. Nickman |
Presents various aspects of adoption including interracial adoption, searching for birth parents, and giving up a child for adoption. Also discusses the feelings of the participants, the provisions o… |
OL5258837W |
|
Rising
|
Darnella Ford |
"Set in a wealthy community in northern Michigan, Rising tells the story of nine-year-old Symone, who is adopted by the Hustons - "a shameless family with a house at the top of the hill" - after her … |
OL5958668W |