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2) Divisadero
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Northern California, 1970s. A father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives.
DIVISADERO takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada’s casinos and eventually to the landscape of south-central France....
DIVISADERO takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada’s casinos and eventually to the landscape of south-central France....
3) Look again
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, her heart stops--the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. She investigates the story behind the flyer, uncovering clues no one was meant to discover, and when she digs too deep, she risks losing her own life--and that of the son she loves.
Author
Publisher
eLectio Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
She spent her days playing in the woods and making mud pies with her little brothers. But when her family began to crumble apart, she and her five brothers were separated from their parents and each other. At the age of ten, she became a foster child. Then at the age of twelve, she was adopted and uprooted to live in northern Indiana, where she struggled to adapt to her strange surroundings and new parents. This memoir chronicles the journey of Little...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Offers parents practical advice on how to welcome an adopted child into their family, with tips for coping with common problems, building affection and trust, dealing with learning or behavioral disorders, and disciplining an adoptive child without harming the parent-child relationship.
7) Lion
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.
Author
Series
Seven sisters volume 3
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father--the elusive billionaire, affectionately called Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted from across the four corners of the world. He has left each of them a clue to her true heritage, and Star nervously decides to follow hers, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole new world. A hundred years earlier, headstrong and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chloe Pinter, a young social worker at an adoption agency in Portland, Oregon, sets off a disturbing chain of events when she warns wealthy and infertile Francie and John McAdoo that impoverished birth parents Penny and Jason, whose demands of the McAdoos have become increasingly strident, have purchased a bassinet and that the adoption may fall through.
10) Sky bridge
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
11) Orphan
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After the loss of their unborn baby, Kate and John Coleman decide to adopt a child as a way to bring some joy and normalcy into their lives. The couple is drawn to Esther, a 9-year-old orphan and they welcome her into their home. As soon as Esther moves in, a series of events begins to unfold, leading Kate to believe that there's something wrong with Esther - this seemingly angelic little girl is not what she appears to be.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Jack and Melissa McGuane have spent years trying to have a baby. Finally their dream has come true with the adoption of their daughter, Angelina. But nine months after bringing her home, they receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: Angelina's birth father, a teenager, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants her back. Worse, his father, a powerful Denver judge, wants him to own up to this responsibility and will use every...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this moving story, Jack and Molly Campbell are enjoying a wonderful life with Joey, their four-year-old adopted son. But their world is soon shattered when they learn Joey's biological father is out of prison and wants to begin a new life with his son. And when a judge orders them to surrender Joey, the Campbells desperately consider taking their son and disappearing-just like dandelion dust.
Author
Series
Acts of Valor volume 5
Publisher
Rise UP Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
American Woman Rescued from Venezuela by Navy SEAL Vows to Return for Her Son in Braving the Valley, A Gripping Christian Romantic Suspense Novel From Rebecca Hartt --Present Day, Venezuela-- A Mother's Unyielding Love, A Navy SEAL's Desperate Mission... Grace Garrett won’t leave Venezuela without the boy she’s working to adopt, but with the Venezuelan Army hunting down Americans, she is lucky to escape alive--or so she’s told. Forced to leave...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Judy Lee's life has not turned out the way she'd imagined. She's divorced, she's broke, and her dreams of being a painter have fallen by the wayside. Her co-worker Roger might be a member of the Yakuza gang, but he's also the only person who's asked her on a date in the last year.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Past indiscretions and long-hidden secrets start to rise to the surface when Nate, a former drug addict who gave his daughter Willa up for adoption seventeen years earlier, is hired to teach at the elite Pioneer School in the Berkshires where Willa is a student and her wealthy adoptive father a board member.
17) Any other family
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Though they look like any other family, they aren't one--not quite. They are three sets of parents who find themselves intertwined after adopting four biological siblings, having committed to keeping the children as connected as possible. At the heart of the family, the mothers grapple to define themselves and their new roles. As they set out on their first family vacation, all three are pushed into uncomfortably close quarters. And when they receive...
20) Silas Marner
Author
Language
English
Description
"A man becomes a recluse when he's accused of a crime he did not commit Silas Marner is a skilled weaver working long hours in London for a Calvinist sect that does not appreciate him. When the congregation's funds are stolen, Silas is framed for the theft and excommunicated. Presumed guilty, abandoned by the love of his life, evicted from his modest home, and humiliated by the men he called his brothers, Silas wanders north to a small village in...
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