intercountry adoption

In this story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world, three very different girls, adopted as babies from the same Chinese orphanage, spend a week at a summer camp, where the adoption agency coordinator wants them to journal their "bonding" experience.

Saroo Brierley discusses his life as an adopted boy living in Tasmania and his time spent finding his birth family in India.

The author share her experiences as the adoptive mother of a Korean-born son, and how that relationship changed her relationship with her aging parents.

Eleven-year-old Anna takes a trip to China and learns more about herself and her Chinese heritage.

Fifth-grader Anna is concerned that her baby sister Kaylee, adopted from China three months ago, is not thriving so she and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project that may save the day.

Eleven-year-old Anna takes a trip to China and learns more about herself and her Chinese heritage.

Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.

Nearly-thirteen-year-old Melinda Jia Mackay was adopted from China as a baby, and she has always preferred to stay out of the limelight, reading and writing for her own pleasure--but now she has a summer assignment, so with the help of a new friend, Tyler, and a therapy dog named Odie, she reluctantly hits the streets of New York City in search of her "true passion," one which she can share with others.

"The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity long-since left behind"--.

A young boy who was adopted grows old enough to ask his mother where he came from. So she tells him a story, with bits of truth woven into fantasy--she says he was rescued out of a dragon's lair, took part in a moonlit parade, and finally came to a new, loving family.