Finding Joy
Illustrator
Yong Chen
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Publication Year
2006
ISBN
9781590781920
Pages
32 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
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.
Grade Level
K-3
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Adoption; Interracial; international adoption; adopted child; adoptive family; interracial/transracial adoption; birth parents
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
Chinese / White
Family Formation
adoptive mother and father
Keywords
babies; China; infants; China's one child rule; love; orphanage
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Coste, Marion, "Finding Joy" (2006). Diverse Families. 114.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/114