adoptees

Miss Fanny Price, the poor relation of a wealthy family, possesses only natural goodness to aid her against a witty and lovely rival as they compete for the man they both love.

A fictional autobiography of conjoined twins told by Rose and Ruby Darlen, two young women who, nearing the age of thirty, are about to become history's oldest surviving twins to be joined at the head.

Several young children recount their experiences as adopted members of their families.

A history of the system which found homes for 200,000 orphans in New York and other states, especially in the West, from 1854 to 1930.

Fanny Price, a teenaged girl of low social rank brought up on her wealthy relatives' countryside estate, feels the sharp sting of rejection when her cousin Edmund, the only person who treats her as an equal, is won over by a flirtatious, exciting--and unprincipled--London girl.

Parents of adopted children describe how their family came together and how their adoptive children have adjusted to the rest of the family.

Asha Miro recounts her return to India in search of her native roots, describing how her life changed after being adopted by a Catalan family at age six and why she still feels a connection to her native country and the orphanage where she spent the first years of her life.