Lyrical text accompanied by vivid illustrations explains to an adopted daughter how the love of her anonymous birth mother and the woman raising her combine to shape who she is.
Each year on the birthday of her adopted Chinese daughter, a mother recalls the moments they have shared, from the first toy to the friends left behind in China.
During the summer that he turns ten years old, Dillon Dillon learns the surprising story behind his name and develops a relationship with three loons, living on the lake near his family's New Hampshire cabin, that help him make sense of his life.
Until now, ten-year-old Ben has believed that life is made up of "all right" and "not all right" stuff, but when his father remarries and the couple adopts a Chinese baby, he wonders which kind of stuff will prevail.
A girl adopted from China describes how her three names--one from her birth mother, one from the orphanage, and one her American parents gave her--are each an important part of who she is.
