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Nine-story pagodas and double-decker buses 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 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) 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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