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22) Little John
Series
Publisher
Family Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Natalie Britain, a family court judge, finds that the child she thought she had given up for adoption twelve years ago has been raised by her estranged father. When he finds he is in failing health he tries to bring them together.
Series
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Not only do parents Bob and Dorothy have six kids of their own, they have also opened up their hearts and their home to thirteen disadvantage and handicapped children. What results is an amazing mix of diversity. The multiethnic kids are heroes who belie the typical stereotype of being handicapped. They go to school, do chores, and "hang out" while simultaniously navigating the difficulties of their disablilties.
25) Curly Top
Series
Shirley Temple collection volume 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005].
Language
English
Description
Edward Morgan, rich trustee of an orphanage, meets and is entranced with little Elizabeth and her older sister Mary. He adopts them and they come to adore Edward. Mary falls in love with Edward, and he has the same feelings; Elizabeth plays matchmaker.
26) 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...
27) Patrik, age 1.5
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Swedish
Description
Newly approved for adoption, Goran and Sven excitedly prepare for their baby's arrival, but after a mix-up, they instead find themselves the parents of a homophobic fifteen-year-old juvenile delinquent.
29) Flying home
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Liana was adopted by relatives after her parents died in an airplane accident in India. Now that she is an adult her past recollections make it impossible to bridge the gulf she still feels with her adopted family. Liana travels to India in search of answers and makes a shocking discovery at her parents' grave site that just might mean the end of everything she's ever believed in.
Author
Publisher
Piñon Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Addresses the mental and emotional challenges parents face when adopting special needs children, with advice on how adoptive parents can help their adopted child adapt to their new family and overcome past emotional traumas and abuses.
Author
Publisher
T. Doherty
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Dooley McSweeny and his wife, Claudia, dearly love the son they adopted from Russia four years ago. But when medical tests indicate that their little boy could not possibly have come from Russia, the couple is plunged into the dark, complex and emotionally fraught world of international adoption. Who is their son? Where did he come from? How did he come to them? The answers to these questions threaten to destroy their marriage, their happiness-and...
34) Juno
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Juno MacGuff is sixteen years-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she's pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides to have an abortion, but can't go through with it. So she decides to have the baby and give it up for adoption. The next step is to find prospective parents...
35) Penny serenade
Publisher
Laserlight DVD
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Classic film about love, marriage and parenthood. Dunne and Grant are worldly sophisticates who marry and adopt a child, while also trying to run a newspaper.
36) I'm adopted!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Encourages readers to reflect and ask questions about adoption.
Publisher
Flux, an imprint of North Star Editions, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome home collects a number of adoption-themed fictional short stories and brings them together in one anthology from a diverse range of celebrated young adult authors..."--Back cover.
A collection of nearly thirty contemporary short stories centered on the theme of adoption.
38) Mostly sunny
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A social worker who was abandoned by her mother sets out to find the truth about her newest charge with the reluctant assistance of a handsome attorney.
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