Guida-Richards, Melissa
Summary: "A guide for white parents of transracially or transnationally adopted children"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 362.734 GUIKadohata, 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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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWSjöblom, Lisa Wool-Rim
Summary: "Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.829 SJOGibney, 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 New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GIBLee, Julayne
Summary: A provocative and furious book about race, culture, identity and what it means to be an inter-country adoptee in America. Julayne Lee was born in South Korea to a mother she never knew. When she was an infant, she was adopted by a white Christian family in Minnesota, where she was sent to grow up. Not My White Savior is a memoir in poems, exploring what it is to be a transracial and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vireo Book/Rare Bird Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 LEEChung, Nicole
Summary: "What does it mean to lose your roots--within your culture, within your family--and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUDealey, Erin
Summary: "Babies come from airports" tells about the adventures of a boy when his mommy brings home his new sister. Calling that special day the "Gotcha Day". He knows just exactly what to say: "We met you at the airport." He waved at planes above. But right now, all she needs to know is ... Babies come from love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DEANg, 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 NGGrover, Janice Zita
Summary: Dakota the dog is rescued from a puppy mill, cared for by a foster owner, and given to a young girl battling cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Gryphon Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ZITNg, Celeste
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 NGGreene, Melissa Fay.
Summary: Dispatches from the new front lines of parenthood from two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.734 GRESummary: The little orphaned swift Manou is adopted by a seagull couple and struggles for acceptance in the seagull's colony. When he meets other swifts, he suddenly finds himself torn between two worlds and must decide where he really belongs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SwLord, Cynthia
Summary: A group of sato puppies, homeless dogs of various breeds from Puerto Rico, has arrived at the animal shelter, and second grade volunteer Suzannah immediately falls in love with one puppy, Paloma--but it is her job to get the puppy ready for adoption, a separation that could easily break her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LORMacGregor, 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: New for 2020, this paperback edition of The Total Cat Manual brings over 200 invaluable tips from David Meyer, Abbie Moore and Dr Pia Stalk, operators of Adopt-A-Pet.com, the world's largest non-profit pet adoption website. Whether a long time or first time cat owner, this 224 page guide will walk you through how to prepare your home, yourself and your family for your new best friend. Get ready...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen International 2020
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Summary: "From Down syndrome advocate and viral sensation Sofia Sanchez comes this beautiful and inclusive picture book about all the different ways to make a family. Families come in many different shapes and forms -- but they all teach you how to be strong and show you how loved you are. Alongside a sweet and simple narrative, the warm illustrations tell their own story. Beginning with Sofia Sanchez's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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Summary: Annotation While books about adoption proliferate, none of them addresses the subject of open an interracial adoption like Jana Wolff's personal and frank account does.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vista Communications 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.734 WOLBottier, Isabelle
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Cassandra uses her abilities to seek a new home for a dog whose owner is moving to a retirement home, but matching Garrett with a new owner is challenging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2020
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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 BRUGeorge, Kallie
Summary: "Clover receives a mysterious egg at the Magical Animal Adoption Agency"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2015
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC GEOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GEOHayasaki, Erika
Summary: "Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and identity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022