Ho, Joanna
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HOKadohata, 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 BOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BOWGibney, 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 GIBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GIBSummary: "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: "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 DEAMacGregor, Maya
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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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MACGarner, Paula
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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Summary: "Francine loves her grandfather, but their time together is running out. He has one final wish: to see a male heir carry on the family traditions. Francine knows his ideas are outdated, but she would do anything for him. Her solution? Ask Ollie Tran, a family friend (and former crush, not that it matters), to pretend to be ceremonially adopted and act like the grandson A Gūng never had. Ollie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC QUABrown, 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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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: J FICTION BRUMacLachlan, Patricia
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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Summary: Waiting for a baby brother or sister is hard to do when you aren't sure what when happen or when. It helps when you can tell yourself a story about how a maybe baby can become your very own little sister or brother. Told from an older sister's point of view, this is an endearing story about adoption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creston Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOLLambert, 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 LAMWilliams, Vera B.
Summary: "After Lester is adopted from his foster home by Daddy Albert and Daddy Rich, he can't fall asleep in his new bed. What will it take to make Lester feel home at last?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WILGriffin, Paul
Summary: Seventh-grader Ben, always an outsider, is led into a deep friendship with Halley, who is being treated for cancer, by the special dog he and his adoptive mother take in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRIHarrington, Claudia
Summary: Lenny follows Adam for a school project and learns about his family life as an adopted child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAROshiro, Mark
Summary: Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OSHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OSHSáenz, 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: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAEChall, Marsha Wilson.
Summary: After observing different types of dogs in his neighborhood, Sam and Gram go to the local pet shelter to choose a puppy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CHALevy, Dana Alison.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVLewis, Rose A.
Summary: A woman describes how she went to China to adopt a special baby girl. Based on the author's own experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LEWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LEWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEWBell, Alex
Summary: "It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer - tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk - but Stella really, really didn't want that to happen, just the same. Join Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands and come face-to-face with frost fairies, snow queens, outlaw hideouts, unicorns, pygmy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes Ltd 2017