adoption

"This is the story of 17-time Paralympic medalist Tatyana McFadden. Born with spina bifida in Russia, Tatyana was raised in an orphanage where she walked on her hands for the first six years of her life. In 1994, she was adopted and moved to the United States, where she started racing and breaking records; and is now considered the best female wheelchair racer of all time, and the fastest woman on Earth"--Amazon.com.

"When tasked with a family tree project at school, Molly, who is adopted, struggles with doubt before finding support from the people who have always given her love"--OCLC.

Describes the experiences of single women pressured into giving babies up for adoption between 1945 and 1973, drawing from interviews with more than one hundred women to discuss social attitudes of the time, the shaming and confinement women in this situation faced, and the impact the experience had on the rest of their lives.

"When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity"--Provided by publisher.

"Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she'll have to answer the question over and over again. Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined. It's hard to solve a mystery, help a friend, and face your worst fears. But Aven's about to discover she can do it all . . . even without arms"--Provided by publisher.

"Nora and Ben's younger sister Birdy loves to keep secrets...One day Birdy watches her mother spit into a tube, ready to send it off to find out more about herself . . . Birdy spits into a tube, too, when no one sees her. But when the test results come back, they are a surprise. Birdy is seemingly not related to Nora and Ben's parents. But if she is adopted, how could that have happened without the children knowing?"--Provided by publisher.

Life has been difficult for Ben Coffin and he doesn't make friends easily, so he spends most of his time with his favorite characters from science fiction books. One day he rescues a scruffy dog on the way home from the library. The dog, who he names Flip, then leads Ben to befriend Halley, a girl who dresses in crazy colors. Ben nicknames her "Rainbow Girl," and together Ben and Halley decide to write a novel. In doing so, Ben's life unravels. If he wants to keep his new friend, he will have to figure out what friendship really means.

Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.

Sixteen-year-old Alex is biracial and an adopted member of a white family. Neither her race nor her adopted status has ever bothered her much. She's always been too focused on excelling at baseball to give herself time to worry about it. But when she meets Reggie, the first black boy to be interested in her, and she discovers letters from her biological father that her adoptive parents have kept hidden, she begins to question who she really is.

When Rev Fletcher and Emma Blue meet, they both long to share secrets, his of being abused by his birth father, hers of her parents' failing marriage and an online troll who truly frightens her.