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Two families, open to love-exploring and explaining adoption at birth Leap into a warm-hearted tale about a little squirrel who was adopted at birth! Join Sammy as Mom and Dad Rabbit bring him to meet his first family. With its whimsical illustrations and appealing rhymes, this storybook is perfect to read aloud to children age 3-5. Open adoption can be complex as well as joyful. Sammy's story opens the door for kids to talk honestly about their experiences...
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Life of a cactus volume 1
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English
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New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
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KWiL Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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A celebration of the beauty and power of crochet-specifically, the life-changing benefits this fiber art has brought to one extraordinary boy, 11-year-old crochet prodigy, Jonah Larson. Part One: Jonah shares his life story, including details about his adoption, significant behavior struggles in school, and the role that crochet has come to play in his life. In sidebar interviews, Jonah asks his mother, Jennifer, to share what she was feeling during...
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Publisher Annotation: Nora and Ben’s younger sister Birdy loves to keep secrets. She surprises her family more than once: She hides a kitten in her room. She writes a beautiful poem. One day Birdy watches her mother spit into a tube, ready to send it off to find out more about herself and where her family came from. Birdy spits into a tube, too, when no one sees her. But when the test results come back, they are a surprise. Birdy is seemingly not...
6) Stellaluna
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English
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After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Alemitu lives with her mother in a poor village in Ethiopia, where she must walk miles for water and hunger roars in her belly. Even though life is difficult, she dreams of someday knowing more about the world. When her mother has no choice but to leave her at an orphanage to give her a chance at a better life, an American family adopts Alemitu"--
9) Buddy
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The puppy place. Main series volume 5
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English
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Lizzie Peterson, who helps out at the local dog shelter, decides to foster Skipper and her three newborn puppies, and when the Petersons give extra care to the runt of the litter, they call him Buddy and later adopt him.
10) Lost cat
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Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Slipper the cat is mistakenly left behind in the commotion when the lady she has always lived with moves in with her daughter's family, so Slipper sets out to find someone new to adopt.
12) My Mei Mei
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Antonia gets her wish when her parents return to China to bring home a Mei Mei, or younger sister, for her.
13) Sisters
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Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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When Melissa's parents adopt Kika from another country, the two girls learn about being sisters.
15) Lucy's feet
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Perspectives Press
Pub. Date
c1992
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English
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Eight-year-old Lucy is suddenly hit uncomfortably with the meaning of her having been adopted by her parents, while her new baby brother was born to them.
16) Louie
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The puppy place. Main series volume 51
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English
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Meet Louie the Landseer (a Newfoundland with black-and-white coloring). He's adorable now, but he'll be a huge dog someday. Can Charles and his soccer teammates find Louie a big enough home?
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Series
Anna Wang books volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014?]
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English
Description
Eleven-year-old Anna takes a trip to China and learns more about herself and her Chinese heritage.
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English
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2021-2022 OBOB 3rd-5th Grade
Children's Books for Native American Heritage Month
Indigenous People's Day: Junior Fiction
Children's Books for Native American Heritage Month
Indigenous People's Day: Junior Fiction
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"When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity"--
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