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1) Just like me
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In this story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world, three very different girls, adopted as babies from the same Chinese orphanage, spend a week at a summer camp, where the adoption agency coordinator wants them to journal their "bonding" experience.
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations
Description
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 recipe for Lucky Birthday Noodles.
3) The D.O.G
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Lola is determined to get a dog, but first she must convince her mother and grandfather, get the rules changed in her building, and a few other things.
5) A mercy
Author
Description
In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.
Author
Series
Anna Wang books volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
162 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
Fifth-grader Anna is concerned that her baby sister Kaylee, adopted from China three months ago, is not thriving so she and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project that may save the day.
8) Lost cat
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Description
Slipper the cat is mistakenly left behind in the commotion when the lady she has always lived with moves in with her daughter's family, so Slipper sets out to find someone new to adopt.
9) Trouper
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Trouper, a three-legged dog, remembers his life as a stray, before he was adopted.
Author
Description
Lara Madigan has a gift. She can help you find your soulmate - your canine soulmate, that is. As a dog trainer with a soft spot for strays, she's found perfect homes for sulky Shih Tzus, broken-down Border collies, and diabolical Dalmatians. But while she'll always make room for one more rescue mutt, she's not sure she's ready to commit to another human being. Especially after her live-in boyfriend drops the bomb: He's not a dog person. Horrified...
11) Gizmo
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 32
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
89 pages ; 20 cm
Description
After taking in Gizmo the Sheltie puppy, the Petersons learn this little puppy must have something to do before his energy destroys everything in Charles and Lizzie's house.
12) Soar
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
Author
Publisher
Two Lions, a trademark of Amazon
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"How MUCH is the crazy-much love?" This simple question is answered as two parents recount the journey of adopting their daughter and the many milestone moments that follow. From the child's first bath and first time riding a tricycle, all the way to her boarding that big yellow bus, the crazy-much love grows SO MUCH that it spills out the windows and busts down the doors. A warm, lyrical celebration of the deep love parents hold for their children,...
Author
Description
Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating...
16) Fleabag
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
A stray dog and a lonely boy become fast friends at a neighborhood park, but everything changes when the boy's family decides to move away.
17) Jake
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 47
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
85 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
Lizzie meets a German shorthaired pointer while at horse camp with her best friend and tries to help him find a perfect home.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The painful and courageous journey toward adoption made by several of her clients forces Maya Lange, founder of The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families, to confront the lost daughter of her past.
19) Edward
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 49
Formats
Description
This puppy is quite a handful. He doesn't listen, he's obsessed with his toy sheep, and he can't ride in the car without..um...getting sick. Has Lizzie met her match, or will she be able to train this pugnacious pug?
20) My new mom & me
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"A puppy comes to live with his adoptive mother, who is a cat."--
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