adopted children

Ashley Rhodes-Courter provides an account of her life, focusing on the nine years she spent in Florida's foster care system after being removed from her mother at the age of three, and explaining how her life changed after she was adopted.

"A biography of American actress and philanthropist Angelina Jolie"--Provided by publisher.

Debates the issues concerning the adoption of children, presenting arguments both in favor of and against adopting.

Sixteen-year-old Sid, raised by loving foster parents on an idyllic island, learns disturbing news about his birth family and leaves everything he knows to search for his troubled younger brother.

Novelist A. M. Homes describes her troubling experiences meeting her biological parents at the age of thirty-one after her birth mother, who conceived her during an affair with an older, married man, sought her out--and even stalked her--and describes her search for more information on her both her biological and adoptive parents' lives and families after her birth mother's sudden death.

Carnegie Wong's mother never approved of her son's marriage to an American, and when she arranges for a mainland Chinese nanny for Wong and Blondie's children, Blondie fears her mother-in-law had an ulterior motive--even from the grave.

Six-year-old Turtle Green witnesses a freak accident drawing her and her mother into a conflict of historic proportions.

Illuminates the resilience of a young Vietnamese girl named Tuyet, following her as she undergoes painful and frightening operations to correct a leg left weakened and bent by polio. Includes black-and-white photographs.

Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio.