adoption

Provides a simple explanation of the stages of the adoption process, and discusses the complex feelings commonly felt by adopted children.

Sixth-grader Lucy Childs and her friend Rosie Treeman do not have much time for their pretend psychiatric practice when Lucy's family decides to adopt a baby, who is kidnapped the day after she arrives at their house.

Twelve-year-old Danny thinks that there is something very familiar about the girl who plays shortstop on the team he faces during the championship series, and his curiosity leads him to a surprising discovery about his own adoption.

When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.

A boy who came from far away to be adopted by a couple in this country remembers how unfamiliar and frightening some of the things were in his new home, before he accepted the love to be found there.

Explains to children that their adoption is nothing to worry about and is, in fact, a positive event.

The sudden and shocking revelation that Katy's mother was adopted estranges the two of them from the Whitmarsh family and sends them on a search for their "real" family, forcing Katy to adjust to bizarre but intriguing new relatives.

Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challanges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf. Sequel to "The Trouble with Tuck.".

An eleven-year-old adopted child realizes that being an only child has its advantages when her mother becomes pregnant after years of sterility.

When Allison realizes that she looks more like her favorite doll than like her parents, she comes to terms with this unwelcomed discovery through the help of a stray cat.