adoption

A collection of thirteen controversial essays that debate issues associated with adoption including open adoptions, intraracial adoptions, and father registries.

Discusses the social causes of teen pregnancy, problems faced by pregnant teens and the alternatives available to them, the impact of parenthood on teens of both sexes, and approaches to the problem.

Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio.

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.

In an English seaside town, Matt befriends an elderly woman who helps him fulfill his dream of surfing and learn to accept his having been adopted.

After T.J. and his younger brother are adopted, the biggest problems they face are winning an international baseball tournament, held in their New Jersey hometown.

Fifteen-year-old Juliana struggles to adjust to life in Blackthorn, England, and when a grisly murder shocks the town, she is haunted by long-buried secrets from her family's own past.

Contains thirty essays and articles in which the authors debate issues related to adoption, discussing whether adoption should be encouraged, government regulation of the U.S. adoption system, access to adoption and birth records, and adoption by gays and lesbians.

A teenage Asian girl who has been adopted by non-Asian parents decides to find out who her biological parents are.

Horace, an adopted child, realizes that being part of a family depends on how you feel and not how you look.