Ng, Celeste
Summary: In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned -- from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren -- an enigmatic artist and single mother -- who arrives in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NGKadohata, Cynthia.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KADBowling, Dusti
Summary: New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017
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Summary: "In a celebration of open adoption, both a baby's birth mother and his adoptive parents share the same universal wishes for the child"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MORGibney, Shannon
Summary: Two girls on different timelines-- each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee-- find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences. -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GIBNg, Celeste
Summary: Летом в Шейкер-Хайтс только и говорили о том, что Изабелл, младшенькая Ричардсонов, все-таки спятила и спалила дом… В Шейкер-Хайтс, спокойном и респектабельном городке все тщательно спланировано - от уличных поворотов и цветников у домов до успешных жизней его обитателей. И никто не олицетворяет дух городка больше, чем миссис Ричардсон, идеальная мать и жена. Но однажды в этом царстве...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phantom Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 FIC NGSummary: "A groundbreaking and must-read young adult fiction anthology written by adoptees of all backgrounds, for adoptees, that inclusively represents diverse experiences of youth adoptees..."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Vom Außenanstrich der Häuser bis zum Alltag ihrer Bewohner: Alles in Shaker Heights, einem beschaulichen Vorort von Cleveland, ist passgenau durchgeplant. Keiner verkörpert diesen Geist mehr als Elena Richardson mit ihrer Familie wie aus dem Bilderbuch. Sie hat ein gutes Herz, deshalb nimmt sie die alleinerziehende Künstlerin Mia Warren als Mieterin auf und behandelt deren Tochter Pearl auch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: dtv 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC NGNg, Celeste
Summary: En Shaker Heights, una tranquila y próspera zona residencial de Cleveland, todo está planeado, desde el trazado de las carreteras, hasta el color de las casas, incluso el éxito de la vida futura de sus vecinos. Nadie encarna mejor este espíritu que Elena Richardson, cuya vida se rige por un principio fundamental: jugar siempre dentro de las reglas sociales. Cuando Mía Warren -una artista...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alba Editorial 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC NGBrown, Dolores
Summary: An adoption story told from the point of view of two parents about the love they have for their adopted child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NubeOcho 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROBruel, Nick.
Summary: Bad kitty is not pleased when a baby joins her family. Includes fun facts and tips for training a cat to perform tricks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRUFrankel, Laurie
Summary: "India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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Summary: Follows 17-year-old Will as they struggle with the aftermath of parental abuse and learn to a forge a new life for themself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MACMacGregor, Maya
Summary: An autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra Young Readers 2022
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Summary: "Why is there a gap in Jules's baby album? A wry and poignant coming-of-age novel about finding the truth in lies, salvaging hope in heartbreak, and making peace with missing pieces. Eighteen-year-old Jules has always wished for a close-knit family. She never knew her father, and her ex-addict mother has always seemed more interested in artistic endeavors than in bonding with her only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GARSáenz, Benjamin Alire
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library/Random House 2017
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Summary: "Nora and Ben's younger sister Birdy loves to keep secrets ... One day Birdy watches her mother spit into a tube, ready to send it off to find out more about herself ... Birdy spits into a tube, too, when no one sees her. But when the test results come back, they are a surprise. Birdy is seemingly not related to Nora and Ben's parents. But if she is adopted, how could that have happened without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MACMora, Pat.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1996
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH MORIeronimo, Christine.
Summary: "Alemitu lives with her mother in a poor village in Ethiopia, where she must walk miles for water and hunger roars in her belly. Even though life is difficult, she dreams of someday knowing more about the world. When her mother has no choice but to leaveher at an orphanage to give her a chance at a better life, an American family adopts Alemitu"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE IERMilford, Kate.
Summary: At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on an adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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Summary: "When former teacher Paula Eden adopts Faith and Trevor, she is astounded by their natural intelligence and decides to homeschool them to nurture their brilliance. But as the years go on, Faith and Trevor itch for more independence. When Faith sets her sights on a handsome young man visiting from out of town, Paula grows increasingly desperate to preserve her small family and her plans for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDCavanaugh, Nancy J.
Summary: In this story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world, three very different girls, adopted as babies from the same Chinese orphanage, spend a week at a summer camp, where the adoption agency coordinator wants them to journal their "bonding" experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CAVLambert, Megan Dowd
Summary: Clyde has always taken his role of Rooster at Sunrise Farm very seriously, but when Fran the goat and her hyperactive kid, Rowdy, join the other animals, Clyde's feathers are ruffled by all the attention that Rowdy is getting, and soon he is crowing at all hours just to wake up the kid--until all the animals tell him that they have had enough of his grandstanding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAMNoblin, Annie England
Summary: "Laid off, cheated on, mugged: what else can go wrong in Maeve Stephens' life? So when she learns her birth mother has left her a house, a vintage VW Beetle, and a marauding cat, in the small town of Timber Creek, Washington, she packs up to discover the truth about her past. She arrives to the sight of a cheerful bulldog abandoned on her front porch, a reclusive but tempting author living next...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020