adoption

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.

Discusses the processes by which people can adopt, who adopts, sources for adoptive children, and other aspects of adoption as seen from both children's and parents' sides.

A photo-essay on the life of the Levin family, an American couple and their two Korean-born adopted sons, ten-year-old Eric and eleven-year-old Joshua.

Includes dual text, one for the adult reader, one for the child, explaining some of the conflicting feelings of an adopted child.

Eleven-year-old Adam is not happy when he learns his family is temporarily taking in a Taiwanese girl his own age until her adoptive family is ready for her.

Each year on his birthday, a young Mexican American boy looks forward to seeing how his grandfather has decorated the tree he planted on the day the boy was adopted.

Adopted from Korea by American parents, Jessie excitedly waits for the day he will get his American citizenship and, he thinks, an American face.

When Melissa's parents adopt Kika from another country, the two girls learn about being sisters.

Feeling overweight, unattractive, and unloved by her adoptive father, Bridget learns to put aside her escapist fantasies and live in the real world after uncovering the secrets of a mysterious house.

The only thing Debbie has ever wanted is a family of her own, and nobody understands that having foster parents just is not the same thing, so she takes out her frustrations on the basketball courts.