adoption

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Adoptive families

2010
Simple text and photographs provide an introduction to adoptive families and describe how family members interact with one another.

All about adoption

how families are made & how kids feel about it
2004
Provides a simple explanation of the stages of the adoption process, and discusses the complex feelings commonly felt by adopted children.

Anne of Green Gables

1999
When she is eleven, Anne Shirley gets her wish to find a home and family that she can call her own when she is adopted by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert and goes to live at Green Gables.

A drowned maiden's hair

a melodrama
2008
In the early twentieth century, young orphan Maud Flynn hopes to finally be loved when she is adopted by the elderly Hawthorne sisters, but she is instead roped into the family's crooked s?ance business.

Happy Adoption Day!

1996
Parents celebrate the day on which they adopted their child and continue to reassure the new addition to their family that it is wanted, loved, and very special. Includes music for the song "Happy Adoption Day!".

Lucy Forever, Miss Rosetree, and the stolen baby

1994
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.

Double play at short

1995
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.

Found

2008
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.

Tuck triumphant

1991
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.".

Through moon and stars and night skies

1990
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.

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