adopted children

Ashley Rhodes-Courter provides an account of her life, focusing on the nine years she spent in Florida's foster care system after being removed from her mother at the age of three, and explaining how her life changed after she was adopted.

Desert guide Issa finds the baby girl Mariama after a sandstorm, and raises her as his own daughter--until a young man and his protectors come seeking a guide for their dangerous journey through the Bitter Mountains.

Six-year-old Turtle Green witnesses a freak accident drawing her and her mother into a conflict of historic proportions.

Interweaves the stories of a baby girl in India, the American doctor who adopted her, and the Indian mother who gave her up in favor of a son, as two families--one in India, the other in the United States--are changed by the child that connects them.

A bitter man living alone with his hoard of gold learns about the power of love after he loses his wealth and takes in an orphan girl who grows up and continues to care for him.

After her father finds her having sex with his twenty-year-old farmhand, sixteen-year-old Anna and her adopted sister Claire find their lives changing and going in separate directions.

After college student Hannah learns that she was an adopted baby and the result of an abortion attempt, she embarks on a road trip with her friend Jason and his friends, hoping to discover her hidden past and find hope for her future.

Reporter Ellen Gleeson is stunned when she sees her adopted son Will on a "Have You Seen This Child?" flier and must decide if she is willing to uncover the truth about her son's birth and possibly risk losing him forever.