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4) 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.
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...
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
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
392 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In China, a foundling girl with a deformed hand raised in secret by an American woman must navigate China's strict adoption system when she is torn away from the only family she has ever known.
10) Lion
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia."--Amazon.com.
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Series
Description
"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 life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up-facing...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate--the first automobile any of them have seen--and a stranger arrives. In...
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 320 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
Description
The founder of Half the Sky Foundation, an organization dedicated to transforming Chinese orphanages and the lives of the neglected girls who live in them, details her perseverance and commitment to this cause.
15) A long way home
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
"The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity long-since left behind"--
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xix, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Describes the history of Operation Babylift, the U.S. government's plan to airlift 3,000 displaced Vietnamese children before the fall of Saigon, and examines the lives of the displaced children after the operation.
Author
Formats
Description
"Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptionsof adoption, family, and identity"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"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...
19) My Mei Mei
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Antonia gets her wish when her parents return to China to bring home a Mei Mei, or younger sister, for her.
20) Summer at Squee
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Phoenny Fang plans to have the best summer ever. She's returning to Summertime Chinese Culture, Wellness, and Enrichment Experience (SCCWEE for short and (3z(BSquee(3y(B to campers in the know), and this year she's a senior camper. That means she; her best friend, Lyrica Chu; and her whole Squad will have the most influence. It almost doesn't matter that her brother is a CIT (counselor-in-training) and that her mom and auntie are the camp directors....
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