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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and their connection is filled with love. She wonders about her...
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"Days before her wedding, a wrenching ordeal shattered Josie Fisher's dreams ... and she fled to her Amish hometown to start over. Now Tobias Mast has arrived with two goals: to find Josie and learn why she called off their wedding, and to buy a home. When the only house he can afford is next door to Josie's farm, will she finally risk telling him her dark secret?"--
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Pip and Me is a story of love between a child and their parent who found each other through adoption. Years after being brought together, Pip's early life trauma continues to significantly impact their daily lives.
Pip is nine years old, struggling with everyday life, feeling scared, out of control and sometimes angry. This book will take you on a journey of how an average day feels for Pip and how that same day is seen from a parent's perspective....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
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A Child's Journey from Foster Care to Adoption
My life tells the parable of a child who finds the ultimate adoption through being fostered. At the tender age of five, I was taken from the custody of my natural parents and turned over as a ward of the state. After years of searching for my identity, I was able to find it through my beautiful foster mother Jimmie. She showed me the way to an adoption that supersedes natural logic. Many that travel...
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From early poems re-imagining Bible stories to new work influenced by her travels through Asia, award-winning poet Jane Williams' keen interest in the connections between people pervades.
Days Like These offers readers familiar with her work a treasured collation and to those coming to it for the first time a tantalising introduction.
Here you will find sorrow and joy inextricably linked in a captivating verse that is ultimately a celebration...
7) Lies I Told
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Grace Fontaine has everything: beauty, money, confidence, and the perfect family. But it's all a lie.
Grace has been adopted into a family of thieves who con affluent people out of money, jewelry, art, and anything else of value. Grace has never had any difficulty pulling off a job, but when things start to go wrong on the Fontaines' biggest heist yet, Grace finds herself breaking more and more of the rules designed to keep her from getting caught...
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Los hijos adoptivos son muy deseados. Una dulce historia para contar la espera de los padres adoptivos. La llegada de la niña o niño y la felicidad de la familia.
Uno de los pocos álbumes que hablan de la adopción de una forma tan hermosa. Un libro tan tierno como necesario.
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Los hijos adoptivos son muy deseados. Una dulce historia para contar la espera de los padres adoptivos. La llegada de la niña o niño y la felicidad de la familia. Uno de los pocos álbumes que hablan de la adopción de una forma tan hermosa. Un libro tan tierno como necesario.
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There are over 45 topics in this book to help you with deciding and applying to go this route, getting through the training, home study, legal, and matching processes, and to equip you with practical insights for the parenting journey.
Inside you'll learn:
- what foster care adoption is and which children can be adopted
- why some families waited and how some pursued this path after facing infertility
- how some had to be persistent and how...
12) Adoption Nation
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With compassion for adopted individuals and adoptive and birth parents alike, Adam Pertman explores the history and human impact of adoption, explodes the corrosive myths surrounding it, and tells compelling stories about its participants as they grapple with issues relating to race, identity, equality, discrimination, personal history, and connections with all their families. For the first edition of this groundbreaking examination of adoption and...
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Nancy's labor pains were harsh and long, close to seven years, in fact. Conceived by Ukrainian parents, her two adopted children, Alyona and Alec, began their rebirth six years later in an American city near the East Coast shoreline. Healing Emotional Wounds-A Story of Overcoming the Long Hard Road to Recovery from Abuse and Abandonment is a compelling chronicle of metamorphosis that gives testament to the power of love, encouragement, and resolve...
14) Kate and the Kid
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The girl sat still for a few seconds. Kate could hear the sound of the fruit juice being drained through the straw, and the girl's chest heaved once inside the curl of Kate's arm. Then, quick as a young frisky cub, she spun and threw her arms around Kate's neck. Tears were streaming down her cheeks and her face was contorted with the effort not to cry. She nuzzled awkwardly against Kate and kissed her over and over with little pecks that covered her...
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"Her Christmas list has three new names... She's the last living relative these girls have... But he's the only family they've ever known. Just in time for Christmas, Sarah Brown has located her long-lost family: her late sister and orphaned triplet nieces. Now she intends to claim custody of the little girls. But one person stands in the way--their guardian, Detective Renzo Calloway. As the triplets draw them closer, building a family together might...
16) Promises I made
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Lies I told volume 2
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English
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When Grace Fontaine leaves her "father" in Seattle, where he is working another con, and returns to Playa Hermosa, she receives help from unexpected sources in her quest to find information about Cormac and Renee that she can trade for her adopted brother Parker's freedom.
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Inspired by a true story of how a young narwhal finds himself a new family to love and accept him-a pod of beluga whales!Little Narwhal is lost. After a big storm hits, he wanders the ocean alone, in search of a community to belong to. Eventually he finds other whales . . . but these whales don't look like him at all! Will they welcome him into their family?From the same team behind the bestselling book Dream Flights on Arctic Nights, this story is...
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Jase has always been different.He sees sounds as colours, his eyes are seriously light sensitive, and he sleepwalks.Kim is used to her little brother's weirdness.Until the spaceship appears over their small rural town.And Jase's odd gifts take on a whole new – and unsettling – meaning.Now Kim and Jase have to make a decision with potentially world-wide consequences…
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Beloved Robert Munsch stories with text adapted for beginner readers, including a note from the author, reading tips, and reading activities.
Tyya is grocery shopping with her dad, but he's not letting her pick any of the good stuff like cookies, ice cream, or candies. When she holds still and is mistaken for the best, most lifelike doll in the supermarket, an argument at the till leads her dad to buy something good after all.
This high -interest...
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