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Two families, open to love-exploring and explaining adoption at birth
Leap into a warm-hearted tale about a little squirrel who was adopted at birth! Join Sammy as Mom and Dad Rabbit bring him to meet his first family. With its whimsical illustrations and appealing rhymes, this storybook is perfect to read aloud to children age 3-5.
Open adoption can be complex as well as joyful. Sammy's story opens the door for kids to talk honestly about their...
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Pip and Me is a story of love between a child and their parent who found each other through adoption. Years after being brought together, Pip's early life trauma continues to significantly impact their daily lives.
Pip is nine years old, struggling with everyday life, feeling scared, out of control and sometimes angry. This book will take you on a journey of how an average day feels for Pip and how that same day is seen from a parent's perspective....
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A Child's Journey from Foster Care to Adoption
My life tells the parable of a child who finds the ultimate adoption through being fostered. At the tender age of five, I was taken from the custody of my natural parents and turned over as a ward of the state. After years of searching for my identity, I was able to find it through my beautiful foster mother Jimmie. She showed me the way to an adoption that supersedes natural logic. Many that travel...
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Los hijos adoptivos son muy deseados. Una dulce historia para contar la espera de los padres adoptivos. La llegada de la niña o niño y la felicidad de la familia.
Uno de los pocos álbumes que hablan de la adopción de una forma tan hermosa. Un libro tan tierno como necesario.
6) Lies I Told
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Grace Fontaine has everything: beauty, money, confidence, and the perfect family. But it's all a lie.
Grace has been adopted into a family of thieves who con affluent people out of money, jewelry, art, and anything else of value. Grace has never had any difficulty pulling off a job, but when things start to go wrong on the Fontaines' biggest heist yet, Grace finds herself breaking more and more of the rules designed to keep her from getting caught...
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Los hijos adoptivos son muy deseados. Una dulce historia para contar la espera de los padres adoptivos. La llegada de la niña o niño y la felicidad de la familia. Uno de los pocos álbumes que hablan de la adopción de una forma tan hermosa. Un libro tan tierno como necesario.
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There are over 45 topics in this book to help you with deciding and applying to go this route, getting through the training, home study, legal, and matching processes, and to equip you with practical insights for the parenting journey.
Inside you'll learn:
- what foster care adoption is and which children can be adopted
- why some families waited and how some pursued this path after facing infertility
- how some had to be persistent and how...
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Nancy's labor pains were harsh and long, close to seven years, in fact. Conceived by Ukrainian parents, her two adopted children, Alyona and Alec, began their rebirth six years later in an American city near the East Coast shoreline. Healing Emotional Wounds-A Story of Overcoming the Long Hard Road to Recovery from Abuse and Abandonment is a compelling chronicle of metamorphosis that gives testament to the power of love, encouragement, and resolve...
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Preschool-Grade 3 Oliver wishes he had a totally different life after receiving a gentle reprimand from his adoptive father. Sent to his room, the young lizard-like creature is convinced that his birth parents would have cut him a much better deal. A little later his mother and father share their own childhood fantasies with him. Most children, explains his father, imagine the lives they could be having, especially when they are angry with their parents....
12) Promises I Made
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In the thrilling sequel to Lies I Told, Grace learns that the most difficult thing about pulling off the perfect crime is living with the consequences. Fans of Ally Carter, Cecily von Ziegesar, and Gail Carriger will love this thrilling, high-stakes novel, which deftly explores the roles of identity and loyalty while offering a window into the world of the rich and fabulous.
Grace Fontaine was trained to carry out perfect crimes. But when a mistake...
13) Kate and the Kid
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The girl sat still for a few seconds. Kate could hear the sound of the fruit juice being drained through the straw, and the girl's chest heaved once inside the curl of Kate's arm. Then, quick as a young frisky cub, she spun and threw her arms around Kate's neck. Tears were streaming down her cheeks and her face was contorted with the effort not to cry. She nuzzled awkwardly against Kate and kissed her over and over with little pecks that covered her...
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Abdo Pub Co
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2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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My Adopted Family is the story of a normal day in Adam's life. When classmate Lenny visits his home, he discovers Adam is adopted. Who makes him do his homework? Mom! Who makes Dinner? Dad! Who tucks him in? Mom and Dad! Lenny realizes love makes a family. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
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Inspired by a true story of how a young narwhal finds himself a new family to love and accept him-a pod of beluga whales!Little Narwhal is lost. After a big storm hits, he wanders the ocean alone, in search of a community to belong to. Eventually he finds other whales . . . but these whales don't look like him at all! Will they welcome him into their family?From the same team behind the bestselling book Dream Flights on Arctic Nights, this story is...
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Les familles homoparentales sont aujourd'hui de plus en plus nombreuses et, surtout, visibles. En effet, la PMA et l'adoption offrent aux homosexuels ou bisexuels la possibilité d'avoir des enfants de manière légale. Certains rencontrent une mère porteuse et tentent l'aventure de la GPA. Cependant, quelle que soit la voie choisie pour avoir un enfant, le projet ne sera ni simple, ni accessible à tous. Cela étant, des centaines de milliers d'enfants...
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Jase has always been different.He sees sounds as colours, his eyes are seriously light sensitive, and he sleepwalks.Kim is used to her little brother's weirdness.Until the spaceship appears over their small rural town.And Jase's odd gifts take on a whole new – and unsettling – meaning.Now Kim and Jase have to make a decision with potentially world-wide consequences…
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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National Book Award Winner, PEN America Award Winner, and New York Times Bestseller!
Perfect for fans of This Is Us, Robin Benway’s beautiful interweaving story of three very different teenagers connected by blood explores the meaning of family in all its forms—how to find it, how to keep it, and how to love it.
Being the middle child has its ups and downs.
But
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Beloved Robert Munsch stories with text adapted for beginner readers, including a note from the author, reading tips, and reading activities.
Tyya is grocery shopping with her dad, but he's not letting her pick any of the good stuff like cookies, ice cream, or candies. When she holds still and is mistaken for the best, most lifelike doll in the supermarket, an argument at the till leads her dad to buy something good after all.
This high -interest...
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