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Author
Series
Publisher
NubeOcho
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ali wants a pet: a dog, a cat, a chicken, an elephant But her parents DONT want animals in the house. One day the little girl finds a giant egg in the park and takes it home. She looks after it and pampers it. But then the egg hatches
63) Wolfie the bunny
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her parents find a baby wolf on their doorstep and decide to raise him as their own, Dot is certain he will eat them all up until a surprising encounter with a bear brings them closer together.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A lonely man tries to buy a pillow . . . and ends up with a new best friend in this silly and sweet doggy tale, perfect for fans of Officer Buckle and Gloria.Dogs make good pillows, don't they? A clever pup ends up in a cozy home, and she'll do anything to stay there. She impersonates everything the lonely homeowner needs--a pillow, a footstool, a jacket. But in the end, being herself works best. Laura Gehl's spare, humorous text and New Yorker cartoonist...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
''Reveals the candid thoughts and feelings of those most directly involved in adoptions: adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents. Adoption Unfiltered authors Sara Easterly (adoptee), Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard (birth parent), and Lori Holden (adoptive parent) interview dozens of adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, social workers, therapists, and other allies—all sharing candidly about the challenges in adoption. While finding common...
66) God found us you
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Little Fox asks his mother to tell his favorite story, Mama Fox recounts the day he arrived in her life, from God to her arms.
67) Open secret
Author
Series
Harlequin super romance volume 1332
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Carrie St. John had just found out she was adopted. What a shock! She now has a sister and a brother she has never met. Not to mention adoptive parents she doesn't seem to know anymore. The only confidant she has is the P.I. that tracked her down. Mark Kinkaid wants to know if she will still need him once she sorts thing out.
Author
Language
English
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"In America, Mother = White. That's what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a Black baby boy out of the foster care system. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was shocked when people started asking her why she wanted to adopt a 'crack baby' or said that she would never be able to raise a Black son on her own. She realized that American society saw motherhood through a white...
71) I found a kitty!
Author
Series
Can I be your dog? volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Arfy finds a homeless kitten, he writes letters to prospective owners, hoping to find the perfect home for his new friend.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Enjoying her loving family life and career successes, Kate Vaughn anticipates a marriage proposal from her boyfriend and realizes that she cannot move forward until she reconnects with a past love and the daughter they gave up for adoption years earlier.
73) Byrd
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Byrd" is the fragmented family history of a child given up for adoption, told through his birth parents and others.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Adoption has long been enmeshed in the politics of abortion. But as award-winning journalist Kathryn Joyce makes clear in The Child Catchers, adoption has lately become entangled in the conservative Christian agenda. To tens of millions of evangelicals, adoption has become a new front in the culture wars: a test of "pro-life" bonafides, a way to reinvent compassionate conservatism on the global stage, and a means to fulfill the "Great Commission"...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Foster care and adoption can be rewarding ways to become parents. But the system itself seems almost rigged for failure, confusion, fraud, and disappointment. This book takes readers on an insiders tour of the system, its successes and failures, and the joys adoption can bring through the real stories of those involved on all sides.
79) Fleabag
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A stray dog and a lonely boy become fast friends at a neighborhood park, but everything changes when the boy's family decides to move away.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Poetry and informational text showcase the work of community animal shelters. Ten different fictional animals represent the millions of pets brought to shelters every day. Suggestions on animal adoption, including how to prepare and appropriate pet selection, are included, along with resources list"--
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