adoption

Twelve-year-old Alice, an orphan who has never been adopted because of her physical handicap and difficult personality, is shocked to discover she has an identical twin sister living nearby.

Alternating passages describe the experiences of a mother and her biological daughter when each is sixteen-years-old, as one becomes unexpectedly pregnant and the other decides whether to find her birth mother.

Describes how these placement systems work and reveals the feelings of young people who find homes through adoption and foster care.

Looks at the institution of adoption through the experience of both adopted children and adoptive parents.

A young girl eagerly awaits the arrival of her newly-adopted sister from Korea, while her whole family prepares.

Donna Milewski, an only child, is living a perfectly happy life with her grandmother, mother, and dad, who she charms with her accordian playing, until her parents adopt a precious, pitiful little girl from Poland who causes a rift between Donna and her father that takes many years to heal.

As she reluctantly becomes friends with Yoon Jun, a new student from Korea, seventh grader Alice Larsen becomes more interested in learning about her own Korean background.