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Hello, Sweet Baby: An Adoption Journey
Janeen Jackson - Paw Prints
Format: Hardcover
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Young and in love, Momma Red and Poppa Yellow Tomato decide to have a baby tomato. However, Momma and Poppa quickly learn that they cannot properly care for their sweet seedling the way and make the difficult decision to release her to another loving tomato family in Hopewell Garden, using... |
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Eyes That Weave the World's Wonders
Joanna Ho - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Elliot
Julie Pearson - Pajama Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Love Like Chocolate
Tracy Banghart - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A deliciously sweet story of family, traditions, and chocolate! Perfect for Valentine's Day, or anytime you want to tell someone "I love you.". As a family welcomes an adopted little girl to their home, her brother takes it upon himself to teach his new sister their traditions.... |
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Our Wish for You: A Story About Open Adoption
Dano Moreno - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover
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This moving picture book about open adoption shares all parents' wish for a child's life to be full of love and family.. One birth mother is pregnant with a baby and wants to find parents to adopt the child. Eventually she finds two dads who will be just the right parents, because... |
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Argo and Me: A story about being scared and finding protection, love, and home
Chandra Ghosh Ippen - Piplo Productions
Format: Hardcover
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"A touching tale, flawlessly told." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Ultimately this touching tale speaks volumes about overcoming trauma and the value of family-in all its many forms." - Booklife Reviews, Editor's Pick. Argo and Me is a heartwarming story about... |
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Home For a While
Lauren Kerstein - Magination Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Calvin is in foster care, and he wants to trust someone, anyone, but is afraid to open his heart. He has lived in a lot of houses, but he still hasn't found his home. When he moves in with Maggie, she shows him respect, offers him kindness, and makes him see things in himself that he's... |
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When the Babies Came to Stay
McDonnell, Christine - VIKING BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
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A gentle humorous story has a significant message of love and acceptance. The first baby arrived on the mail plane, the second two on the ferry, the fourth asleep on a pile of nets, smelling of mackerel. Who were the babies? Where did they come from? The notes left with them said "Please... |
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Happy Adoption Day!
John McCutcheon
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Enhanced by full-color illustrations and musical notation, the lyrics to a joyful song capture the excitement and joy of pre-adoption preparations and celebrate the special day when a child is brought home to become a new member of a family. |
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A Mother for Choco
Keiko Kasza - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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One Family
George Shannon - Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Just how many things can "one" be? One box of crayons. One batch of cookies. One world. One family.From veteran picture book author George Shannon and up-and-coming artist Blanca Gomez comes a playful, interactive book that shows how a family can be big or small and comprised... |
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Allison
Allen Say - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Book
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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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A Family Is a Family Is a Family
Sara O'Leary - Groundwood Books
Format: Print book
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When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different in many ways - but the same in the one way that matters most of all.One child is worried that her family is just too different to explain, but listens as her classmates... |
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Home at Last
Vera B Williams - Greenwillow Books
Format: Print book
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A poignant, timely, and universal picture book about fear, adoption, family, and the joy of fatherhood, written by beloved and award-winning author Vera B. Williams and illustrated by the author in collaboration with two-time Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka.After Lester is adopted by Daddy... |
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My New Mom & Me
Renata Galindo - Schwartz & Wade Books
Format: Print book
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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 Love You Like Crazy Cakes
Rose A Lewis - Little, Brown
Format: Audio CD
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This story of a woman who travels to China to adopt a baby girl, based on the author's own experiences, is a celebration of the love and joy a baby brings into the home. Full color. |
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We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families
Todd Parr
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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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Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
Jamie Lee Curtis - HarperCollins
Format: Audiobook
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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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Dragons Extraordinary Egg
Debi Gliori - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover
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In this heartwarming story, a dragon in need of an egg finds an abandoned egg in need of a mommy. It seems like the perfect fit, but when that egg hatches, the little baby doesnt look like all the other dragons. In fact, he looks a lot like a penguin! Of course, his mommy loves him no matter... |
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I've Loved You Since Forever
NOT AVAILABLE. - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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I've Loved You Since Forever is a celebratory and poetic testament to the timeless love felt between parent and child. This beautiful picture book is inspired by New York Times bestselling author and Today show co-host Hoda Kotb's heartwarming adoption of her baby girl, Haley Joy.With Kotb's... |
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And Tango Makes Three
Justin Richardson - Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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And Tango Makes Three is the bestselling, heartwarming true story of two penguins who create a nontraditional family.At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others. But their desire for a family was the same. And with... |
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A New Barker in The House
Tomie DePaola
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The Barker twins, Morgie and Moffie, meet their adopted brother, Marcos, in this wonderful sequel to Meet the Barkers. But Marcos isn't a baby-he's three years old, and he only speaks Spanish. As Marcos plays dollies with Moffie and dinosaurs with Morgie, he's a little bewildered |
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Every Year on Your Birthday
Rose A. Lewis - Little
Format: Book
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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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The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale
Grace Lin - Albert Whitman & Company; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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A king and queen should be full of joy and contentment, but they both feel a strange pain that worsens every day. Then a peddlers magic spectacles reveal a red thread pulling at each of their hearts. The king and queen know they must follow the thread., |
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Star of the Week : a story of love, adoption, and brownies with sprinkles
Darlene Friedman - Bowen Press
Format: Print book
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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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Pablo's tree
Pat Mora
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Each year on his birthday, a young Mexican American boy looks forward to seeing how his grandfather has decorated the tree he planted on the day the boy was adopted. Ever since his daughter adopted young Pablo, grandfather decorates a tree on the anniversary of the boy's arrival. |
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Mommy Far, Mommy Near: An Adoption Story
Shawn Costello Brownell - Whitman
Format: Print book
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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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Three Names of Me
Mary Cummings - Albert Whitman & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Ada has three names. Wang Bin is what the caregivers called her at her Chinese orphanage. Ada is the name her American parents gave her. And there is a third name, a name the infant Ada only heard whispered by her Chinese mother. |
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I'm Adopted!
Shelley Rotner - Holiday House
Format: Book
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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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How I Was Adopted: Samantha's Story
Joanna Cole - Morrow Junior Books
Format: Print book
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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 Most Unusual Day
SYDRA MALLERY - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover
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Something rather extraordinary is happening in Caroline's life today . . . her family is adopting a new baby sister! A warm and loving story about school, family, siblings, and adoption, for anyone eagerly awaiting the arrival of a new sibling.Today is a very unusual day! Caroline wakes... |
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Sweet Moon Baby: An Adoption Tale
Karen Henry Clark - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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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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How I Was Adopted
Joanna Cole - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Sam has a story all her own, yet common to millions of families: the story of how she was adopted. It's about how babies are born and how children grow, about what makes people different and what makes them the same. Most of all, it's a story about love. And in the end, Sam's... |
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Adoptive Families
Sarah L. Schuette - Capstone Press
Format: Book
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Simple text and photographs present adoptive families, including how family members interact with one another. |
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