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  Far from the Tree

  Robin Benway

  Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister who was also adopted; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system. Grace struggles between cautious joy at having found them, and the true meaning of family in all its forms.

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  Fat Angie

  E.E. Charlton-Trujillo Charlton-Trujillo

  Fat Angie's sister was captured in Iraq, she's the resident laughingstock at school, and her therapist tells her to count instead of eat. Can a daring new girl in her life really change anything?

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  Felicia's Favorite Story

  Lesléa Newman

  It's bedtime, but before Felicia goes to sleep she wants to hear her favorite story, the story of how she was adopted by Mama Nessa and Mama Linda.

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  Finding Joy

  Marion Coste

  Shu-li, an infant girl who had to be sent away by her family in China, is adopted by an American family and renamed Joy.

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  First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover

  Mitali Perkins

  During her father's presidential campaign, sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton, who was adopted from Pakistan at the age of three, struggles with campaign staffers who want to give her a more "all-American" image and create a fake weblog in her name.

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  For Black Girls Like Me

  Mariama Lockington

  Makeda June Kirkland is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda's family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves behind her best friend, Lena― the only other adopted black girl she knows― for a new life. In New Mexico, everything is different. At home, Makeda’s sister is too cool to hang out with her anymore and at school, she can’t seem to find one real friend. Through it all, Makeda can’t help but wonder: What would it feel like to grow up with a family that looks like me? Through singing, dreaming, and writing secret messages back and forth with Lena, Makeda might just carve a small place for herself in the world. For Black Girls Like Me is for anyone who has ever asked themselves: How do you figure out where you are going if you don’t know where you came from?

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  Forever Fingerprints: An Amazing Discovery for Adopted Children

  Sherrie Eldridge

  Lucie's aunt and uncle are having a baby, which makes Lucie wonder about her birth mother and what it was like before she was born.

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  Forever, or a Long, Long Time

  Caela Carter

  Flora and her brother, Julian, don’t believe they were born. They’ve lived in so many foster homes, they can’t remember where they came from. And even now that they’ve been adopted, Flora still struggles to believe that they’ve found their forever home. So along with their new mother, Flora and Julian begin a journey to go back and discover their past—for only then can they really begin to build their future.

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  Girl in the Shadows

  V. C. Andrews

  After the death of her parents, April Taylor flees north to take a job looking after Mrs. Westington's deaf granddaughter, Echo, until the arrival of the girl's mother and her drug-dealing boyfriend puts both girls' lives in deadly danger.

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  God Found Us You

  Lisa Tawn Bergren

  When Little Fox asks his mother to tell his favorite story, Mama Fox recounts the day he arrived in her life, from God to her arms.

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  Goodnight, Boy

  Nikki Sheehan

  A tale of two very different worlds, both shattered by the loss of loved ones. Tragic, comic and full of hope, thanks to a dog called Boy. The kennel has been JC's home ever since JC s new foster father locked them inside. As the hours and days pass, JC tells Boy about how he came to his country: his family, the orphanage and the Haitian earthquake that swept everything away. How, after, his adoptive mother his foster mother Melanie brought a new light into his life and brought him to her home country. He started to feel normal again. Until JC did something bad, so bad that he and Boy were banished to the kennel. Just before their punishment, just before the kennel. Now their Foster Father is getting sicker, Melody still isn't home, and JC and Boy realize that they have to try and escape.

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  Goyangi Means Cat

  Christine McDonnell

  An understanding cat helps a young Korean girl adjust to her new home in America.

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  GreenBean: True Blue Family

  Elizabeth Blake

  Greenbean is worried that she does not belong in her family because she is different, but discovers that belonging is about something different.

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  Greenglass House

  Kate Milford

  It's wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler's inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his holidays relaxing. But on the first icy night of vacation, out of nowhere, the guest bell rings. Then rings again. And again. Soon Milo's home is bursting with odd, secretive guests, each one bearing a strange story that is somehow connected to the rambling old house. As objects go missing and tempers flare, Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, must decipher clues and untangle the web of deepening mysteries to discover the truth about Greenglass House -- and themselves.

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  Half a World Away

  Cynthia Kadohata

  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.

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  Happy Adoption Day!

  John McCutcheon

  Parents celebrate the day on which they adopted their child and continue to reassure the new addition to their family that they are wanted, loved, and very special.

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  Heart of Mine: A Story of Adoption

  Dan Hojer and Lotta Hojer

  Offers young readers a story about adoption as two parents explain how their daughter, Tu Thi, came into their lives from a country so very far away.

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  Heart Picked: Elizabeth's Adoption Tale

  Sara Crutcher

  Six-year-old Elizabeth is excited to have her dad visit school today but worries some of her classmates might notice they don't look alike. How will Elizabeth respond when her friend says, "That's your dad? You don't look like him."

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  Here's a Penny

  Carolyn Haywood

  Follows the adventures of six-year-old William, an adopted boy nicknamed Penny for his copper-colored hair, as he attends a Halloween party, adopts kittens, and finds an older brother to join his family.

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  Holly's Secret

  Nancy Garden

  When she starts middle school, eleven-year-old Holly decides to become sophisticated and feminine, change her name to Yvette, and hide the fact that her two moms are lesbians.

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  Home At Last

  Vera B. Williams

  After Lester is adopted from his foster home by Daddy Albert and Daddy Rich, he can't fall asleep in his new bed. What will it take to make Lester feel home at last?

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  Hooper

  Geoff Herbach

  For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam’s basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he’s tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future. But life is more complicated off the court. When an incident with the police threatens to break apart the bonds Adam’s finally formed after a lifetime of struggle, he must make an impossible choice between his new family and the sport that’s given him everything.

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  Horace

  Holly Keller

  Horace, an adopted child, realizes that being part of a family depends on how you feel and not how you look.

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  How I Was Adopted: Samantha's Story

  Joanna Cole

  A young girl tells the story of how she came to be her parents' child through adoption.

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  How My Family Came to Be: Daddy, Papa and Me

  Andrew Aldrich

  Examines how to be a family when adopted by a gay couple.