adoption

Provides a history of the legal challenges to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adoptions of children, with personal anecdotes of individuals who have challenged the view that same-sex orientation renders individuals incapable of being good parents.

Examines the current foster care system in the United States, focusing on how the system helps, or fails to help, teens prepare for life on their own and become productive, well-adjusted adults after they are released from the foster care system.

Happy to be adopted at last, twelve-year-old orphan Mary Hayes soon learns a terrifying secret about her new mother, the mysterious Madame Z.

"An adopted middle child receives an unexpected package on an otherwise unremarkable birthday inviting her to join a super-secret division of the CIA"--Provided by publisher.

Teelo the cat discovers a baby seal which has lost its way and takes it home to care for it until it is well enough to be returned to the sea.

A young puppy is adopted by a cat mommy, and even though they look very different, and some other cat families scoff at them, the puppy and mama cat decide that they don't care they look different. They love each other just as they are.

Sixteen-year-old Kim Peterson learns more about herself and her friends, and practices her new commitment to God, by writing a teen advice column for the newspaper on which her father is managing editor.

Seventh-grader Ben, always an outsider, is led into a deep friendship with Halley, who is being treated for cancer, by the special dog he and his adoptive mother take in.

Fifth-grader Cleo Edison Oliver is full of money-making ideas, and her fifth-grade Passion Project is no different--but things get more complicated when she has to keep her business running, be a good listener when her best friend needs her, and deal with the bully teasing her about being adopted at the same time.