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1) Dogtown
Author
Series
Dogtown volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have outgrown them. Chance, a real dog, has been in Dogtown since her owners unwittingly left her with irresponsible dog-sitters who skipped town. Metal Head is a robot dog who dreams of being back in a real home. And Mouse is a mouse who has the run of Dogtown, pilfering kibble, and performing clever feats to protect the dogs he loves. When Chance and Metal...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 their connection is filled with love. She wonders about her birth mom and comes to appreciate both her birth culture and her adopted family's culture, for even though they may seem very different, they are both a part of her, and that is what makes...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
India Allwood, who always wanted to be an actor, is now a 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. It tells only the same old tired story of tragedy. But India's an adoptive mom herself and knows there's so much more to her family than tragedy. Soon she's at the center of a media storm, battling accusations from protesters on the...
Author
Publisher
Familius
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
With gentle rhymes and . . . illustrations, [this book] celebrates the joy and love of adoption from A to Z. With B for birth parents, Q for questions, and U for understanding, it frames challenging aspects of adoption in a way children can understand. Each page shows a different adoptive family of cuddly animals welcoming and cherishing a new child.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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 adopted family, readers will meet families with two moms...
7) Whale talk
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Intellectually and athletically gifted, T.J., a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The third season brings more spellbinding moments for the Pearsons. The Big Three undergo big changes as they turn 38, and another shocking family truth is revealed. As we join Jack and Rebecca on their awkward first date, we learn more about other romances. Kevin's visit to the Vietnam village where Jack served brings revelations, Randall enters a new arena, Beth resurrects an old dream, and Kate and Toby refuse to give up on parenthood. Through...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His unexpected appearance and assiduous attention revives her and...
11) One blood
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Join New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner as she explores the lives of three generations of women tied together by love, hope, dreams, ambition...and family secrets in this epic novel. Potent, poetic, powerful, told with deep love, and spanning from the Great Migration to the civil unrest of the 1960s to the quest for women's equality in early 2000s, Denene Millner's beautifully wrought novel explores three women's intimate, and often...
12) Sparky
Author
Series
Puppy place volume 62
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lizzie has competition as a foster puppy parent at Caring Paws! While volunteering, she meets Harper, who might know more about dogs than Lizzie does! But when Sparky, a tiny Chihuahua mix, arrives with an injured leg, the two girls will have to team up to find this sweet, strong puppy a perfect home.
14) Just like Millie
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a young girl and her mother move to an apartment in a new city, the girl feels fine on her own. She would rather play by herself than meet new kids at the park or have a playdate with the other children in her building. And when her mom takes her to story time at the bookstore, she breaks down in tears. But things start to change when she meets Millie, a rescue dog who is not too big, not too small. On their daily walks, Millie isn't afraid to...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real. Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained...
17) Dear stray
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A little girl adopts the prickliest stray kitten at the shelter because sometimes she feels prickly, too.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, a nine-year-old boy was swept away by powerful waves on a remote Oregon beach, his body lost to the sea. Only a stone memorial remains to mark his tragic death. For most of her life, Amanda Dufresne had no idea she had an older brother named Dennis Owens, or that he had died. Adopted as a baby, she learned about him while looking into her late birth mother, and is curious to know more about this lost sibling. A solitary young woman,...
20) Waffles
Author
Series
Puppy place volume 68
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Waffles is exuberant, playful, and smart--maybe too smart! She's quite the escape artist and Lizzie has her hands full trying to keep tabs on her.
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