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  • You're Not My Real Mother by Molly Friedrich

    You're Not My Real Mother

    Molly Friedrich

    After an adoptive mother tells her daughter all the reasons that she is her "real mother," the young girl realizes that her mother is right, even though they do not look alike.

  • You're Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner

    You're Welcome, Universe

    Whitney Gardner

    When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy himself could convince her to give that up. Out in the 'burbs, Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off--and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war.

  • You Were Always in My Heart: A Shaoey & Dot Adoption Story by Mary Beth Chapman and Steven Curtis Chapman

    You Were Always in My Heart: A Shaoey & Dot Adoption Story

    Mary Beth Chapman and Steven Curtis Chapman

    An abandoned Chinese baby who has been befriended by a ladybug finds her way to an orphanage where she is eventually adopted by an American family.

  • Yuko-chan and the Daruma Doll: The Adventures of a Blind Japanese Girl Who Saves Her Village by Sunny Seki

    Yuko-chan and the Daruma Doll: The Adventures of a Blind Japanese Girl Who Saves Her Village

    Sunny Seki

    After the 1783 eruption of Japan's Mount Asama destroys crops in nearby villages, an orphaned blind girl who lives at the Daruma Temple in Takasaki invents a doll representing a famed Buddhist monk and his teachings about resilience.

  • Zachary's New Home: A Story for Foster and Adopted Children by Geraldine M. Bloomquist and Paul B. Bloomquist

    Zachary's New Home: A Story for Foster and Adopted Children

    Geraldine M. Bloomquist and Paul B. Bloomquist

    This story for adopted and foster children describes the adventures of Zachary the kitten, who is taken from his mother's house when she is unable to take care of him. It follows Zachary as he goes into foster care, his adoption by a family of geese, and his feelings of shame, anger and hurt.

  • Zack by William Bell

    Zack

    William Bell

    The son of a Jewish father and black mother, high school senior Zack has never been allowed to meet his mother's family, but after doing a research project on a former slave, he travels from his home in Canada to Natchez, Mississippi to find his grandfather.

  • Zack's Story: Growing Up with Same-Sex Parents by Keith Elliot Greenberg

    Zack's Story: Growing Up with Same-Sex Parents

    Keith Elliot Greenberg

    An eleven-year-old boy describes life as part of a family made up of himself, his mother, and her lesbian partner.

  • Zak's Safari: A Story About Donor-Conceived Kids of Two-Mom Families by Christy Tyner

    Zak's Safari: A Story About Donor-Conceived Kids of Two-Mom Families

    Christy Tyner

    Zak's Safari is a book about donor-conceived kids of two-mom families. When the rain spoils Zak's plan for a safari adventure, he invites the reader on a very special tour of his family instead. Zak shows us how his parents met, fell in love, and wanted more than anything to have a baby--so they decided to make one.

  • Zayde Comes to Live by Sheri Sinykin

    Zayde Comes to Live

    Sheri Sinykin

    When Rachel's beloved grandfather, Zayde, comes to spend his last days with her family, she worries what will happen when he dies, especially after friends tell her the Christian and Muslim beliefs about the afterlife.

  • Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker

    Zenobia July

    Lisa Bunker

    Zenobia July is starting a new life. She used to live in Arizona with her father; now she's in Maine with her aunts. She used to spend most of her time behind a computer screen, improving her impressive coding and hacking skills; now she's coming out of her shell and discovering a community of friends at Monarch Middle School. People used to tell her she was a boy; now she's able to live openly as the girl she always knew she was. When someone anonymously posts hateful memes on her school's website, Zenobia knows she's the one with the abilities to solve the mystery, all while wrestling with the challenges of a new school, a new family, and coming to grips with presenting her true gender for the first time. Timely and touching, Zenobia July is, at its heart, a story about finding home.

  • Zoom! by Robert Munsch

    Zoom!

    Robert Munsch

    When Lauretta tries out a 92-speed, silver and gold, dirt-bike wheelchair, she gets a speeding ticket but also helps out her brother.

  • Zora and Nicky by Claudia Mair Burney

    Zora and Nicky

    Claudia Mair Burney

    Two hearts, one God. Should anything else matter? Zora's daddy may be a preacher, but Zora lost God. And she wants Him back. Nicky's preacher father is a white, racist, Southern Baptist. Will these two lost sheep find Him?

 

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