adoption

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adoption

Families are different

1991
An adopted Korean girl discovers that her classmates have different types of families.

Emma's yucky brother

2001
Emma finds out how hard it is to be a big sister when her family adopts a four-year-old boy named Max.

The scariest night

1993
When her family decides to spend the summer in Milwaukee so that her adopted brother can perfect his genius at a special piano school, Erin finds herself consumed with jealousy and turns to a medium for help.

The ausl?nder

2011
Peter, an orphan in Warsaw, is adopted by German professor Kaltenbach and his wife who believe the boy to be a fine specimen of Hitler Youth, but Peter begins to develop his own ideas in opposition to the Nazis, which is not a popular position in Berlin in 1943.

Orphan!

2010
Thirteen-year-old Homer suddenly learns that he is adopted and sets out from 1930s Iowa for New York City with his best friend, Jamie, aided by friends old and new as he tries to learn about his origins and, in the process, discovers what family really means.

Doppelganger

2008
High school newspaper reporter Roni Delicata finds an age-progressed photo of a missing child that looks just like her sidekick, Brian, throwing the pair into an investigation of Brian's past and family heritage.

Three black swans

2010
When sixteen-year-old Missy Vianello decides to try to convince her classmates that her cousin Claire is really her long-lost identical twin, she has no idea that the results of her prank will be so life-changing.

Kimchi & calamari

2007
After getting caught lying on a school project about who his grandfather was, fourteen-year-old Joseph Calderno is forced to redo the assignment and learns more about his adopted Italian-American family and Korean heritage than he ever thought possible.

First daughter

extreme American makeover
2007
During her father's presidential campaign, sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton, who was adopted from Pakistan at the age of three, struggles with campaign staffers who want to give her a more "all-American" image and create a fake weblog in her name.

Blackthorn winter

2006
An idyllic seaside artists' colony in England is the scene of murder, and fifteen-year-old American-born Juliana Martin-Drake attempts to solve the crime while unraveling the mystery of her own past.

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