adoption

Fourteen-year-old Harley, an artistic teenager living with her alcoholic father and angry mother, suspects that she is adopted and begins a search for her biological parents.

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.

Presents a guide to adoption for teenagers, providing answers to question about identity and birth history, including real life examples that help young adults deal with issues related to acceptance, fitting-in, communicating with parents, and more.

In the public eye since she was adopted as a baby from China by her Hollywood celebrity parents, sixteen-year-old Chloe-Grace, longing for a "normal" life," undergoes a transformation with the help of her mother's stylist and finds not only the life she wanted but an important key to her past.

Destiny, a thirteen-year-old control freak who feels alienated in her messy, haphazard family, helps her adopted best friend when she finds her birth mother and decides to have a relationship with her.

Presents a guide to adoption for teenagers, providing answers to question about identity and birth history, including real life examples that help young adults deal with issues related to acceptance, fitting-in, communicating with parents, and more.

Fifteen-year-old Milly Kaufman is an average American teenager until Pablo, a new student at her school, inspires her to search for her birth family in his native country.

Discusses several aspects of teen pregnancy, including the role of drugs and alcohol; what happens to the body during pregnancy; options including adoption, keeping the baby, and abortion; childbirth; breast-feeding; the impact on mothers' and fathers' lifestyles; legal matters; and contraception.

Six different children talk with their parents about how their families came to be. Included are birth families, adoptive families, two-parent families, and single-parent families.