intercountry adoption

Recounts how the author, who had previously decided against having children, accompanied a friend to China to assist the latter's adoption efforts and adopted the baby herself when the friend backed out, an unexpected choice that profoundly changed her life and eventually tested the bonds of the friendship.

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.

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.

On her sixth birthday, Mei-Mei puts on a special new dress and helps her adoptive mother make a traditional birthday dish from Mei-Mei's home country, China, to share with her loving family. Includes recipe for Lucky Birthday Noodles.

In China, a foundling girl with a deformed hand raised in secret by an American woman must navigate China's strict adoption system when she is torn away from the only family she has ever known.

Imagine opening Facebook one day and finding a message that says "I think we might be twins." Which is exactly what happened to Samantha Futerman, a then twenty-five-year-old actress who was raised in New Jersey. Adopted from South Korea as an infant, Sam grew up with her parents and two American-born brothers. Until she was contacted by Anais Bordier, who grew up in France, she never imagined she had a sister. As Anais' identical face looked back at her from Facebook, she was stunned. A YouTube video of Samantha was what brought the two together. Anais, too, had been adopted as an infant from South Korea. As they talked, they realized they shared a sense of humor, giddy laughter, expressions, ideals, a need to sleep ten hours a night, and the same birth date. Although they grew up in different countries, they discovered that nothing can disrupt the unbreakable bond between sisters.

A sourcebook for multicultural families formed through adoption, offering advice on finding community, creating a multicultural home, confronting prejudice, and other topics; and including lists of resource publications, goods, and services.

"Alemitu lives with her mother in a poor village in Ethiopia, where she must walk miles for water and hunger roars in her belly. Even though life is difficult, she dreams of someday knowing more about the world. When her mother has no choice but to leave her at an orphanage to give her a chance at a better life, an American family adopts Alemitu"--Provided by publisher.

In the summer of 1998, Jenny Bowen watched as her three-year-old daughter, Maya, adopted from China, continued to transform from a vacant-eyed sickly girl to a joyous girl thriving in an environment where she knew she was loved. In that moment, Jenny knew she wanted to help all the children who had not been adopted and founded Half the Sky Foundation which works with the Chinese government to bring a caring adult into the life of every orphaned child.

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