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"What does it mean to lose your roots--within your culture, within your family--and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better...
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English
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Riveting Race against the Clock to Save a Young Woman's Life A storm the size of Texas brews when Gloria Powell and Kai Chang meet in a Dallas hotel. They have come to discuss the future of Lily, the daughter Gloria adopted from China and the sister Kai hopes to reclaim. Kai is a doctor who had to give up her little sister during the Cultural Revolution and has since discovered that an inherited genetic defect may be waiting to fatally strike Lily....
3) Minion
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Michael Morn is a supervillain-in-training and the adoptive son of the brilliant criminal mastermind whose sense of right and wrong is thrown into question when a new superhero arrives in town--
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CreateSpace.com
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 22 cm
Language
English
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Has God touched your life through adoption? This sweet picture book is a wonderful resource for anyone wanting to describe how God lovingly designs all kinds of families through this special gift.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio twin sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system. Grace struggles between cautious joy at having found...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on an adventure.
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Publisher
WestBow Press, a division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"As an adoptee, Lyndy Stokes looked for God's hand in her adoption. While reading the Bible, she realized there were many stories of adoption throughout both the Old and New Testements. Through the stories of Moses, Esther, Ruth, and Jesus, Lyndy relates their Biblical lives to adoptees lives today. God was at work then, and He continues to be at work today!"--
Author
Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"A story told from the parents perspective of the process to adopt a little boy internationally. Lyrically written, with beautiful and colorful illustrations, this story is sure to be a family favorite."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.
13) Brave like that
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Eleven-year-old Cyrus knows he is not cut out to be a football hero or fireman like his adopted father, but it takes a skittish stray dog to teach him that he, too, can be brave.
14) Saving Marty
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Lorenzo adopts a runt piglet destined for auction, an unexpected, life-changing friendship forms--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Growing up, Mallory Mouse Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent years being homeschooled by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her senior year at a public high school. The first day, she runs into Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her childhood, and Mallory realizes that their bond never really faded. But as Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory faces...
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Gifted clans novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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After thirteen-year-old Hattie Oh casts a dangerous spell so her adopted sister, Riley, will get a share of her inherited magic, Riley must undertake a near-impossible quest to save Hattie from death.
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Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Two girls on different timelines--each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee--find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences"--OCLC.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that she has a younger sister living in foster care in a nearby...
20) If only
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English
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Tells the story of a pregnant sixteen-year-old Bridget and her decision to give her baby up for adoption and the story of sixteen-year-old Ivy as she searches for her birth mother to find out where she comes from.
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