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341) Somebody's Girl
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Martha knows she is adopted, but she's well-loved and popular, at least until her mother gets pregnant and she feels her parents' attention start to shift. Upset and confused, Martha lashes out at-and loses-her friends. She also makes no secret about her annoyance at being forced to do a school project about sturgeon with Chance, a difficult boy whose foster parents are family friends. To add insult to injury, Martha's birth mother announces that...
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Beloved Robert Munsch stories with text adapted for beginner readers, including a note from the author, reading tips, and reading activities.
Tyya is grocery shopping with her dad, but he's not letting her pick any of the good stuff like cookies, ice cream, or candies. When she holds still and is mistaken for the best, most lifelike doll in the supermarket, an argument at the till leads her dad to buy something good after all.
This high -interest...
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Fostering children is a way of providing a temporary family for children who cannot live with their own parents. Fostering can be a rewarding and challenging experience for both the foster carers and the children. There are many reasons why children may need foster care, such as abuse, neglect, family breakdown, illness, or disability.
Foster carers are people who have the skills, patience, and compassion to care for children who have experienced...
344) Adoption
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Before you spend up to $75,000 in hidden child-adoption fees, adult adoptees worldwide have investigated the history of domestic and international adoption and have started a movement to end the crisis of child trafficking. You can gain a bird's-eye view on adoption secrets before you transfer funds to the adoption agency. This information is available for a short time only.
This research book has been divided into four short, easy-to-read sections,...
345) Grit & Magic
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Is it possible to stay hopeful - and to keep a sense of humor - while your deepest desire is threatened? When you're falsely accused? When people you trust advise you to hide your heritage?
Melanie Herz Promecene, who faced each of those challenges while trying to adopt a child, is walking proof that the answer is yes.
In this staggeringly honest, often hilarious, always hopeful memoir, Promecene takes readers with her through the terror of 9/11 in...
346) Jumping Off Swings
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One pregnancy. Four friends. It all adds up to a profound time of change in this poignant, sensitively written YA novel. (Age 14 and up)
Ellie remembers how the boys kissed her. Touched her. How they begged for more. And when she gave it to them, she felt loved. For a while anyway. So when Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life, leads her from a party to the backseat of his van, Ellie follows. But their "one-time thing" is
...347) Stellaluna
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
348) Two weeks: a novel
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Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
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2019.
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First Howard Books hardcover edition.
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356 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest decision of her life. Cole Blake, son of Landon and Ashley Baxter Blake, is months away from going off to college and taking the first steps towards his dream--a career in medicine. But as he starts his...
350) Something Good
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Tyya is grocery shopping with her dad, but he's not letting her pick any of the good stuff like cookies, ice cream, or candies. When she holds still and is mistaken for the best, most lifelike doll in the supermarket, an argument at the till leads her dad to buy something good after all.
A newly designed Classic Munsch picture book introduces this tale of mistaken merchandise to a new generation of young readers.
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Twelve-year-old BFF's Ginnie West and Tillie Taylor, want to be sisters. Ginnie's widowed dad plus Tillie's divorced mom could equal a lifetime of round-the-clock girl talk and slumber parties. Too bad Dad vowed to never marry again. Ginnie and Tillie come up with the perfect scheme to change his mind: 'Operation Secret Sisters' (aka OSS). After all, if they can't get Dad to move on, Tillie can't move in.Things get more complicated when Ginnie stumbles...
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Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an unforgettable portrait that takes us deep inside the lives of foster children in their search for a stable, loving family. Beam shows us the intricacies of growing up in the system-the back-and-forth...
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Aven Green volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Aven Green, the remarkable heroine of Dusti Bowling's Life of a Cactus series, marches to her own beat in this hilarious, upbeat, and unforgettable chapter book.
Third-grader Aven Green is an expert soccer player. She even has her own top secret moves! But when her friend Sujata joins the team, Aven has a hard time learning to help the new player shine. When the time comes to choose a new team captain, will Aven learn to share the spotlight and...
354) Finding Balance
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Gone... but not forgotten? Amy loved everything about her mom: her smile, her smell, her gentle laugh. On the day her mom died, it felt as though the sun went dark. Her dad bought a house with wheels and they started moving, but no matter how many new places they went, the sun never came back out. At least, not until Mary showed up and handed Amy a box of Froot Loops. Amy loved Mary from the very first day-almost as much as her dad did. Amy began...
355) Eden's children
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Eden (V. C. Andrews) volume 1
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English
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"When former teacher Paula Eden adopts Faith and Trevor, she is astounded by their natural intelligence and decides to homeschool them to nurture their brilliance. But as the years go on, Faith and Trevor itch for more independence. When Faith sets her sights on a handsome young man visiting from out of town, Paula grows increasingly desperate to preserve her small family and her plans for the children to carry on her legacy. Luckily, she has a cohort...
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Ollie Otter is an orphan from Michigan who is guided to a new Otter family. Robbie Racoon is raised by his grandmother in California's Redwood Forest. Wally Wallaby is from Australia, adopted by a mama wallaby looking for a child of her own. Pauly Penguin is from Chile, alone inside his egg in freeing temperatures, until Papa Penguin discovers the abandoned egg and brings warmth and life. This is a story about rescue, critters being given a second...
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This book sheds light on the emotional and logistical challenges every adoptive parent faces. It provides an in-depth walk-through each step of the adoption process-from a first-hand experience-and gives helpful tips to make any prospective adoptive parent's journey go as smoothly as possible.
This story would help you understand the importance of adoption-and the blessings that come from providing a loving home to a child. The book also offers practical...
358) Izzy in the Doghouse
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Izzy volume 1
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The first title in a hilarious new chapter book series for emerging readers.
Isabel and Zoë are favorite friends - most of the time. They have side-by-side cubbies. And they never take off their friendship bracelets. But sometimes, Isabel isn't Zoë's favorite friend at all. Because sometimes, the fun things they do end in a no-fun way. Like getting sent to the principal's office because of Isabel's shenanigans. Now Zoë's mad at Isabel, and Isabel's...
359) Welcome Home
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Welcome Home collects a number of adoption-themed fictional short stories, and brings them together in one anthology from a diverse range of celebrated Young Adult authors. The all-star roster includes Edgar-award winner Mindy McGinnis, New York Times best-selling authors C.J. Redwine (The Shadow Queen) and William Ritter (Jackaby), and acclaimed YA authors across all genres. The full list of contributors includes: Adi Alsaid, Karen Akins, Erica M....
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A silly new tale from the Qualeyverse has arrived!
Saul Paulson is a fifteen-year-old boy living in the city of Evergreen Canyon, just living an average life alongside his friend Kaleb and girlfriend Cecilia. All of that changes on one seemingly-normal day, and he suddenly finds himself fifteen years in the future! Not only has he not aged, but he is immediately confronted by his thirty-year-old self!
How will the younger Saul react to...
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