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  • Ten Days and Nine Nights: An Adoption Story by Yumi Heo

    Ten Days and Nine Nights: An Adoption Story

    Yumi Heo

    A young girl eagerly awaits the arrival of her newly-adopted sister from Korea, while her whole family prepares.

  • That's My Daddy and Pop by Tina Rella

    That's My Daddy and Pop

    Tina Rella

    That's My Daddy and Pop is the heartwarming story of Jessie, a little girl with two fathers. Jessie doesn't realize that her family isn't 'typical' until a girl in her class asks about her mom. Jessie's Daddy and Pop tell her about the amazing journey they took to adopt her.

  • The Accidental Adventures of India McAllister by Charlotte Agell

    The Accidental Adventures of India McAllister

    Charlotte Agell

    India, an unusual nine-and-a-half-year-old living in small-town Maine, has a series of adventures which bring her closer to her artist-mother, strengthen her friendship with a neighbor boy, and help her to accept the man for whom her father moved away.

  • The Barefoot Book of Children by David Dean, Tessa Strickland, and Kate DePalma

    The Barefoot Book of Children

    David Dean, Tessa Strickland, and Kate DePalma

    The Barefoot Book of Children takes its readers on a visual trek across the globe, where they discover that -- despite our different clothes and homes and languages -- we are more alike than different.

  • The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk

    The Beauty That Remains

    Ashley Woodfolk

    Autumn, Shay, and Logan, whose lives intersect in complicated ways, each lose someone close to them and must work through their grief.

  • The Best Single Mom in the World by Mary Zisk

    The Best Single Mom in the World

    Mary Zisk

    A girl tells how her mother decided to become a single parent and traveled overseas to adopt her and describes their happy life as a family.

  • The Blending of Foster and Adopted Children into a Family by Heather Lehr Wagner and Marvin Rosen

    The Blending of Foster and Adopted Children into a Family

    Heather Lehr Wagner and Marvin Rosen

    Explores issues facing families confronting the challenges created by adoption and foster care, and identifies steps members of blended families can take to ensure that they have a strong foundation.

  • The Child in the Fathers' Hearts: A Story of Adoption by Paul Janson

    The Child in the Fathers' Hearts: A Story of Adoption

    Paul Janson

    A picture book designed to be read to adopted children of gay parents. The child is adopted by two fathers. The opening comments are about the author's own philosophy of children, that all children begin in the heart of their parents however they come to be a part of a family.

  • The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

    The Cruel Prince

    Holly Black

    Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him--and face the consequences. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. As civil war threatens, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.

  • The Day We Met You by Phoebe Koehler

    The Day We Met You

    Phoebe Koehler

    Mom and Dad recount the exciting day when they adopted their baby.

  • The Family Book by Todd Parr

    The Family Book

    Todd Parr

    Represents a variety of families, some big and some small, some with only one parent and some with two moms or dads, some quiet and some noisy, but all alike in some ways and special no matter what.

  • The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island by Dana Alison Levy

    The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island

    Dana Alison Levy

    Summertime brings the Fletcher Family back to Rock Island where the good times never end, but this summer the boys' favorite lighthouse is all boarded up and with the help from their new neighbors, the Garcia girls, the boys are determined to find out what is really happening with their lighthouse and saving it, no matter what the cost.

  • The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough

    The Game of Love and Death

    Martha Brockenbrough

    In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.

  • The Great Big Book of Families by Mary Hoffman

    The Great Big Book of Families

    Mary Hoffman

    Features illustrations and descriptions of different types of families and how their lives are similar and different.

  • The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Saenz

    The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

    Benjamin Alire Saenz

    A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is.

  • The Last True Love Story by Brendan Kiely

    The Last True Love Story

    Brendan Kiely

    Hendrix and Corrina bust Hendrix's grandfather out of assisted living, and leave LA for New York in pursuit of freedom, truth, and love.

  • The Length of a String by Elissa Brent Weissman

    The Length of a String

    Elissa Brent Weissman

    Imani knows exactly what she wants as her big bat mitzvah gift: to find her birth parents. She loves her family and her Jewish community in Baltimore, but she has always wondered where she came from, especially since she's black and almost everyone she knows is white. Then her mom's grandmother--Imani's great-grandma Anna--passes away, and Imani discovers an old journal among her books. It's Anna's diary from 1941, the year she was twelve and fled Nazi-occupied Luxembourg alone, sent by her parents to seek refuge in Brooklyn, New York. Anna's diary records her journey to America and her new life with an adoptive family of her own. And as Imani reads the diary, she begins to see her family, and her place in it, in a whole new way.

  • The Little Green Goose by Adele Sansone and J. Alison James

    The Little Green Goose

    Adele Sansone and J. Alison James

    Mr. Goose finds an abandoned egg, hatches it, and raises a peculiar green-skinned long-tailed chick, who worries about his identity but comes to recognize that he has a loving parent.

  • The Lottery Plus One by Emma Donoghue

    The Lottery Plus One

    Emma Donoghue

    Once upon a time, two couples with Jamaican, Mohawk, Indian, and Scottish ethnic roots won the lottery and bought a big house where all of them, four adults and seven adopted and biological children, could live together in harmony--but change is inevitable, especially when a disagreeable grandfather comes to stay.

  • The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue

    The Lotterys Plus One

    Emma Donoghue

    Once upon a time, two couples with Jamaican, Mohawk, Indian, and Scottish ethnic roots won the lottery and bought a big house where all of them, four adults and seven adopted and biological children, could live together in harmony--but change is inevitable, especially when a disagreeable grandfather comes to stay.

  • The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher by Dana Alison Levy

    The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher

    Dana Alison Levy

    Relates the adventures of a family with two fathers, four adopted boys, and a variety of pets as they make their way through a school year, Kindergarten through sixth grade, and deal with a grumpy new neighbor.

  • The Mulberry Bird: An Adoption Story by Anne Braff Brodzinsky

    The Mulberry Bird: An Adoption Story

    Anne Braff Brodzinsky

    Although she loves her baby very much, a young mother bird gives him up for adoption because she is unable to give him the home which he needs.

  • The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I Funny Ever (I Funny #6) by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein

    The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I Funny Ever (I Funny #6)

    James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein

    Comedian Jamie Grimm can't help feeling like he's reached the top--he has his own smash hit TV show and he's won a national funny-kid competition. But now he's taking his fame and fortune to international levels by competing in the upcoming world kid comic contest! Will Jamie prove that he's the funniest kid on earth--or does he stand (or sit!) to lose his crown?

  • The New Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Mama Bear, Mommy Bear, and Baby Bear by Beth McMurray

    The New Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Mama Bear, Mommy Bear, and Baby Bear

    Beth McMurray

    The new Goldilocks and the Three Bears helps celebrate the diversity of loving families. This version follows Mama Bear, Mommy Bear, and Baby Bear as they encounter the timeless character of Goldilocks.

  • The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang by Amy Ignatow

    The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang

    Amy Ignatow

    Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd. Novel appears in the form of a scrapbook.

 

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