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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...
322) Pretty kitty
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this charming counting book, a lonely old man discovers one kitty on his front step. But he does not want a kitty cat - scat! As the number of kitties grows, will the man find room in his heart--and home--for his new feline friends? A counting picture book in rhyme about a lonely old man whose heart is slowly melted by an ever-growing number of kitties hoping to find a home.
323) 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
Series
Publisher
NubeOcho
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Ale quiere una mascota: un perro, un gato, una gallina, un elefante... Pero sus padres NO quieren animales en casa. Un día la niña se encuentra un huevo gigante en el parque y se lo lleva a casa, lo cuida y lo mima. Cuando el huevo se rompe..."--
326) And J.J. slept
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When baby J.J. arrives at his new home, his family is bubbling over with excitement to meet him! The busy family of six is now a family of seven (eight if you include Cheddar the dog). There's always something going on at home -- and lots of noise to go along with it. But J.J. sleeps through it all. That first week, J.J. does all sorts of typical baby things: gets a bath, has his smelly diaper changed and sleeps some more. But when the four kids...
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,...
329) Promises I made
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Grace Fontaine leaves her "father" in Seattle, where he is working another con, and returns to Playa Hermosa, she receives help from unexpected sources in her quest to find information about Cormac and Renee that she can trade for her adopted brother Parker's freedom.
330) 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.
331) Breathe my name
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her birth mother, who has just been released after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Nicole Chung graduated from high school, she couldn't hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon hometown fast enough. As a scholarship student at a private university on the East Coast, no longer the only Korean she knew, she found a sense of community she had always craved as an Asian American adoptee - and a path to the life she'd long wanted. But the middle class world she begins to raise a family in - where there are big homes, college...
Author
Series
Cassandra animal psychic volume 2
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
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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