adoption

Stuart Little, a small mouse who has been adopted by a human family, learns to make the family's big house his home.

A loving couple dream of a baby born far away and know that this is the baby they have been waiting to adopt.

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.

While searching for his birthmother, fifteen-year-old James, a championship diver, discovers who his real parents are and where his real home is.

After learning she has an older sister whom her parents gave up for adoption twenty-five years earlier, fifteen-year-old Josey Muller has to find a way to accept her new sibling and cope with the fact that she is no longer the only daughter.

A mother tells an adopted child about coming into the family.

In alternating voices, thirteen-year-old Rosa and her mother are trying to adopt a Tanzanian child in England, while in Tanzania, nine-year-old Abela watches her family die and her uncle illegally sends her to England, in the hopes of selling her.

Frank and Ellie Benton, suffering from the death of their seven-year-old son, move to Girbaug, India, where Frank works for a pharmaceutical company and Ellie begins volunteering, but Frank's obsession with providing happiness for and spending time with the son of their maid and cook threatens their marriage and lives.

Provides general information about the laws governing adoption for people trying to adopt a child and those wishing to place a child for adoption, explaining the different types of adoptions, looking at the legal procedure, and discussing the costs involved.

Barley, an adopted little bear, is reassured of his mother's love after she tells him the story of how she wished for him and how her wish came true.