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Elliot

Julie Pearson - Pajama Press
Format: Hardcover

Elliot's parents love him very much, but all is not well. When he cries, they do not understand why. When he yells, they do not know what to do. When he misbehaves, they do not know how to react. One day a social worker named Thomas comes to visit, and Elliot's world turns upside-down.Manon...
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Dara Palmer's Major Drama

Emma Shevah - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Hardcover

"'The lead role of Maria in The Sound of Music goes to ..."I could practically hear her say "Dara Palmer." This was going to be my big break! But what really came out of my teacher's mouth was "Ella Moss-Daniels."My heart went huuuuggggggghhhhht.Dara Palmer...
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Just Like Me

Nancy J Cavanaugh - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Every Soul a Star and Inside Out & Back Again, Just Like Me is a funny, uplifting summer camp story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world from the award-winning author of This Journal Belongs to Ratchet.Who eats Cheetos with chopsticks?!...
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Real Sisters Pretend

Megan Dowd Lambert - Tilbury House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

NOW IN PAPERBACK Mia and Tayja pretend to be princesses on a perilous journey, but theres one thing they dont have to pretend. They know in their hearts that theyre real sisters despite being adopted. Playful and sweet, Real Sisters Pretend celebrates the wonderful variety of modern families,...
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My New Mom & Me

Renata Galindo - Schwartz & Wade Books
Format: Print book

Here is a heartwarming and completely accessible story about adoption, diversity, and acceptance. Told from the point of view of a puppy who is adopted by a cat, this gentle and reassuring tale is perfect for very young readers and listeners. When the puppy comes to live with his new mom,...
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Elliot

Julie Pearson - Pajama Press
Format: Hardcover

Elliot's parents love him very much, but all is not well. When he cries, they do not understand why. When he yells, they do not know what to do. When he misbehaves, they do not know how to react. One day a social worker named Thomas comes to visit, and Elliot's world turns upside-down.Manon...
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Just Like Me

Nancy J Cavanaugh - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Every Soul a Star and Inside Out & Back Again, Just Like Me is a funny, uplifting summer camp story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world from the award-winning author of This Journal Belongs to Ratchet.Who eats Cheetos with chopsticks?!...
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Yafi's Family: an Ethiopian boy's journey of love, loss and adoption

Linda Pettitt - Amharic Kids
Format: Hardcover

A tender story of a six-year-old Ethiopian boy's adoption and family history is a celebration of the all-encompassing love for each child that original families and adoptive parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters share. Yafi (Yafee) , his parents, and two sisters, eight-year-old Kari...
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My New Mom & Me

Renata Galindo - Schwartz & Wade Books
Format: Print book

Here is a heartwarming and completely accessible story about adoption, diversity, and acceptance. Told from the point of view of a puppy who is adopted by a cat, this gentle and reassuring tale is perfect for very young readers and listeners. When the puppy comes to live with his new mom,...
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I'm Adopted!

Shelley Rotner - Holiday House
Format: Book

Why was I adopted? What was it like where I was born? How did you find me? Children have many questions about adoption. With a perceptive text and dynamic photographs, the creators of this book demystify adoption for young children and celebrate the joy that comes with adding to a family.
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Breadcrumbs

Anne Ursu - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover

A stunning modern-day fairy tale from acclaimed author Anne Ursu Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. But that was before he stopped talking to her and disappeared into a forest with a mysterious woman made of ice. Now it's up to Hazel to go in after him. Inspired by Hans...
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Yafi's Family: an Ethiopian boy's journey of love, loss and adoption

Linda Pettitt - Amharic Kids
Format: Hardcover

A tender story of a six-year-old Ethiopian boy's adoption and family history is a celebration of the all-encompassing love for each child that original families and adoptive parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters share. Yafi (Yafee) , his parents, and two sisters, eight-year-old Kari...
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Sweet Moon Baby: An Adoption Tale

Karen Henry Clark - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover

This is the story of one baby's journey from her birth parents in China, who dream of a better life for their daughter, to her adoptive parents on the other side of the world, who dream of the life they can give her.A turtle, a peacock, a monkey, a panda, and some fish shepherd the baby...
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I'm Adopted!

Shelley Rotner - Holiday House
Format: Book

Why was I adopted? What was it like where I was born? How did you find me? Children have many questions about adoption. With a perceptive text and dynamic photographs, the creators of this book demystify adoption for young children and celebrate the joy that comes with adding to a family.
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Breadcrumbs

Anne Ursu - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover

A stunning modern-day fairy tale from acclaimed author Anne Ursu Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. But that was before he stopped talking to her and disappeared into a forest with a mysterious woman made of ice. Now it's up to Hazel to go in after him. Inspired by Hans...
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Star of the Week : a story of love, adoption, and brownies with sprinkles

Darlene Friedman - Bowen Press
Format: Print book

It's Cassidy - Li's turn to be Star of the Week at school! So she's making brownies and collecting photos for her poster. She has pictures of all the important people in her life - with one big exception. Cassidy - Li, adopted from China when she was a baby, doesn't have a photo of her birthparents....
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Sweet Moon Baby: An Adoption Tale

Karen Henry Clark - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover

This is the story of one baby's journey from her birth parents in China, who dream of a better life for their daughter, to her adoptive parents on the other side of the world, who dream of the life they can give her.A turtle, a peacock, a monkey, a panda, and some fish shepherd the baby...
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Ten Days and Nine Nights: An Adoption Story (Rise and Shine)

National Geographic Learning - National Geographic School Pub
Format: Hardcover

A girl waits ten days and nine nights for her mom to return from a trip with an adopted baby sister.
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Star of the Week : a story of love, adoption, and brownies with sprinkles

Darlene Friedman - Bowen Press
Format: Print book

It's Cassidy - Li's turn to be Star of the Week at school! So she's making brownies and collecting photos for her poster. She has pictures of all the important people in her life - with one big exception. Cassidy - Li, adopted from China when she was a baby, doesn't have a photo of her birthparents....
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Every Year on Your Birthday

Rose A. Lewis - Little
Format: Book

In I Love You Like Crazy Cakes, Rose Lewis and Jane Dyer told the heartfelt story of one woman's adoption a baby girl from China. These sentiments are brought to life again in this touching portrait of birthday celebrations and unforgettable moments between a mother and her little girl:...
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We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families

Todd Parr - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In a kid-friendly, accessible way, this book explores the ways that people can choose to come together to make a family. It's about sharing your home and sharing your heart to make a family that belongs together.
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Ten Days and Nine Nights: An Adoption Story (Rise and Shine)

National Geographic Learning - National Geographic School Pub
Format: Hardcover

A girl waits ten days and nine nights for her mom to return from a trip with an adopted baby sister.
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My Mei Mei

Ed Young - Philomel Books
Format: Book

More than anything else in the world, Antonia wants a Mei Mei, little sister, to call her own. But when she and her mother and father fly all the way to China to get her little sister and Antonia finally meets her, she is not at all like Antonia imagined her: She can't walk. She can't talk....
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Every Year on Your Birthday

Rose A. Lewis - Little
Format: Book

In I Love You Like Crazy Cakes, Rose Lewis and Jane Dyer told the heartfelt story of one woman's adoption a baby girl from China. These sentiments are brought to life again in this touching portrait of birthday celebrations and unforgettable moments between a mother and her little girl:...
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Rebecca's journey home

Brynn Olenberg Sugarman - Kar-Ben Publishing
Format: Print book

Rebecca's Journey Home opens as two young brothers eagerly await their mom's return from Vietnam with their newly adopted baby sister Rebecca. The story follows the family through the baby's arrival, her first Shabbat in her new home, and her visit to the mikvah as she is converted...
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We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families

Todd Parr - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In a kid-friendly, accessible way, this book explores the ways that people can choose to come together to make a family. It's about sharing your home and sharing your heart to make a family that belongs together.
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The Red Blanket

Eliza Thomas - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

A touching and beautiful adoption story that reveals the challenges as well as the joys of forming a new family.This is a story about a little girl who needed a mommyand a forgotten blanket that needed a little girland a woman who needed them both.This is a journey about the forming of a family.It...
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My Mei Mei

Ed Young - Philomel Books
Format: Book

More than anything else in the world, Antonia wants a Mei Mei, little sister, to call her own. But when she and her mother and father fly all the way to China to get her little sister and Antonia finally meets her, she is not at all like Antonia imagined her: She can't walk. She can't talk....
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Rebecca's journey home

Brynn Olenberg Sugarman - Kar-Ben Publishing
Format: Print book

Rebecca's Journey Home opens as two young brothers eagerly await their mom's return from Vietnam with their newly adopted baby sister Rebecca. The story follows the family through the baby's arrival, her first Shabbat in her new home, and her visit to the mikvah as she is converted...
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My Family is Forever

Nancy L Carlson - Viking
Format: Book

Some families look alike, some don't. Some families are formed through birth, and some families are formed by adoption. But as the little girl in this heartwarming book makes clear, being a family isn't about who you look like or where you were born - it's about the love that binds you together....
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The Red Blanket

Eliza Thomas - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

A touching and beautiful adoption story that reveals the challenges as well as the joys of forming a new family.This is a story about a little girl who needed a mommyand a forgotten blanket that needed a little girland a woman who needed them both.This is a journey about the forming of a family.It...
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The Family Book

Todd Parr - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

The Family Book celebrates the love we feel for our families and all the different varieties they come in. Whether you have two moms or two dads, a big family or a small family, a clean family or a messy one, Todd Parr assures readers that no matter what kind of family you have, every family...
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My Family is Forever

Nancy L Carlson - Viking
Format: Book

Some families look alike, some don't. Some families are formed through birth, and some families are formed by adoption. But as the little girl in this heartwarming book makes clear, being a family isn't about who you look like or where you were born - it's about the love that binds you together....
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Jin Woo

Eve Bunting - Clarion Books
Format: Book

David likes his family the way it has always been, just him and Mom and Dad. He never wanted to be a big brother. And he certainly didn't want Jin Woo, the little baby from Korea, to join the family. Now Jin Woo is getting all the attention, and David feels as if no one cares about him anymore....
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Mommy Far, Mommy Near: An Adoption Story

Carol Antoinette Peacock - Whitman
Format: Book

Young Elizabeth feels a range of emotions as she learns that she has two mommies: one in China and one in America. Her adoptive mother explains that although her Chinese mother loved Elizabeth and wanted to keep her, she couldn't because of China's laws.
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The Family Book

Todd Parr - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

The Family Book celebrates the love we feel for our families and all the different varieties they come in. Whether you have two moms or two dads, a big family or a small family, a clean family or a messy one, Todd Parr assures readers that no matter what kind of family you have, every family...
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Jin Woo

Eve Bunting - Clarion Books
Format: Book

David likes his family the way it has always been, just him and Mom and Dad. He never wanted to be a big brother. And he certainly didn't want Jin Woo, the little baby from Korea, to join the family. Now Jin Woo is getting all the attention, and David feels as if no one cares about him anymore....
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Little Miss Spider

David Kirk - Scholastic Press/Callaway
Format: Book

When Miss Spider pops out of her egg, surrounded by brothers and sisters scurrying about, her mother is nowhere to be found - but kind Betty the Beetle is there to fill the role. "Just right for preschoolers or beginning readers, this reassuring story, complete with a surprise ending,...
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Mommy Far, Mommy Near: An Adoption Story

Carol Antoinette Peacock - Whitman
Format: Book

Young Elizabeth feels a range of emotions as she learns that she has two mommies: one in China and one in America. Her adoptive mother explains that although her Chinese mother loved Elizabeth and wanted to keep her, she couldn't because of China's laws.
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Allison

Allen Say - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Book

When Allison tries on the red kimono her grandmother has sent her, she is suddenly aware that she resembles her favorite doll more than she does her mother and father. When her parents try to explain that she is adopted, her world becomes an uncomfortable place. She becomes angry and withdrawn....
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How I Was Adopted: Samantha's Story

Joanna Cole - Morrow Junior Books
Format: Print book

Sam has a joyful story to tell, a story completely her own, yet common to millions of families. It is a story of how babies are born and how children grow, a story of what makes people different and what makes them the same. But most of all, this is a book about love. And in the end, Sam's...
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Little Miss Spider

David Kirk - Scholastic Press/Callaway
Format: Book

When Miss Spider pops out of her egg, surrounded by brothers and sisters scurrying about, her mother is nowhere to be found - but kind Betty the Beetle is there to fill the role. "Just right for preschoolers or beginning readers, this reassuring story, complete with a surprise ending,...
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Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born

Jamie Lee Curtis - HarperCollins
Format: Audiobook

Tell me again about the night I was born . . Tell me again how you would adopt me and be my parents... Tell me again about the first time you held me in your arms . . In asking her mother and father to tell her again about the night of her birth, a young girl shows that it is a cherished...
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Allison

Allen Say - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Book

When Allison tries on the red kimono her grandmother has sent her, she is suddenly aware that she resembles her favorite doll more than she does her mother and father. When her parents try to explain that she is adopted, her world becomes an uncomfortable place. She becomes angry and withdrawn....
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How I Was Adopted: Samantha's Story

Joanna Cole - Morrow Junior Books
Format: Print book

Sam has a joyful story to tell, a story completely her own, yet common to millions of families. It is a story of how babies are born and how children grow, a story of what makes people different and what makes them the same. But most of all, this is a book about love. And in the end, Sam's...
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A Mother for Choco

Keiko Kasza - Putnam
Format: Book

Family is about love no matter how different parents and children may be, adopted or not.Choco wishes he had a mother, but who could she be? He sets off to find her, asking all kinds of animals, but he doesn't meet anyone who looks just like him. He doesn't even think of asking Mrs. Bear...
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Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born

Jamie Lee Curtis - HarperCollins
Format: Audiobook

Tell me again about the night I was born . . Tell me again how you would adopt me and be my parents... Tell me again about the first time you held me in your arms . . In asking her mother and father to tell her again about the night of her birth, a young girl shows that it is a cherished...
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Saffy's Angel (Costa Children's Book Award (Awards))

Hilary McKay - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

Those of you who have read Hilary McKay's earlier books, among which are The Exiles, Dog Friday, and Dolphin Luck, will happily welcome her new story, Saffy's Angel. Whether you have read her work or not, you have a special treat in store in Saffy's Angel. You'll...
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A Mother for Choco

Keiko Kasza - Putnam
Format: Book

Family is about love no matter how different parents and children may be, adopted or not.Choco wishes he had a mother, but who could she be? He sets off to find her, asking all kinds of animals, but he doesn't meet anyone who looks just like him. He doesn't even think of asking Mrs. Bear...
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Saffy's Angel (Costa Children's Book Award (Awards))

Hilary McKay - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

Those of you who have read Hilary McKay's earlier books, among which are The Exiles, Dog Friday, and Dolphin Luck, will happily welcome her new story, Saffy's Angel. Whether you have read her work or not, you have a special treat in store in Saffy's Angel. You'll...
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