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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Missy Vianello decides to try to convince her classmates that her cousin Claire is really her long-lost identical twin, she has no idea that the results of her prank will be so life-changing.
Author
Publisher
Laurel-Leaf Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 18 cm
Language
Español
Description
Milly es una adolescente estadounidense común y corriente hasta que un estudiante nuevo llamado Pablo llega a su escuela secundaria. Milly enfrenta su identidad de niña adoptada del país natal de Pablo, y decide emprender un viaje lleno de valentía de regreso a este país.
Fifteen-year-old Milly Kaufman is an average American teenager until Pablo, a new student at her school, inspires her to search for her birth family in his native country.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
146 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspiring, true tales of interspecies adoption, One Big Happy Family tells the heartwarming stories of animals who have reached out to save the lives of babies from other species and raise them as their own. Whether it's the border collie and his piglets, the cat and her ducklings, the orangutan and his lion cubs, or even the Labrador and her baby hippo, these are poignant, charming tales of animals who have felt the parental instinct and cared for...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lillian Firestone is Chinese, but the kids in her 1951 Kansas City high school can't separate her from the North Koreans that America is at war with. Sick of the racism she faces at school and frustrated that her adoptive white family just sees it as 'teasing, ' Lily begins to search for her birth mother"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rev Fletcher, adopted by his foster parents at a young age, never takes their love and respect for granted. Ten years after becoming part of their family, he receives a letter from his abusive fire-and-brimstone father, causing memories of the severe physical traumas Rev endured during his childhood to burn deeper than ever. Meanwhile, Emma Blue is on top of the world, having created an online game, OtherLANDS, that has already developed a community....
Author
Series
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Kim Peterson learns more about herself and her friends, and practices her new commitment to God, by writing a teen advice column for the newspaper on which her father is managing editor.
Author
Series
First daughter volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
During her father's presidential campaign, sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton, who was adopted from Pakistan at the age of three, struggles with campaign staffers who want to give her a more "all-American" image and create a fake weblog in her name.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only black student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
German soldiers take Peter from a Warsaw orphanage, and soon he is adopted by Professor Kaltenbach, a prominent Nazi, but Peter forms his own ideas about what he sees and hears and decides to take a risk that is most dangerous in 1942 Berlin.
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
ix, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner, crossed paths with a stray dog while competing in a 155-mile race through the Gobi Desert in China. The lovable pup, who would later earn the name Gobi, proved that what she lacked in size, she more than made up for in heart, as she went step for step with Dion over the Tian Shan Mountains, across massive sand dunes, through yurt villages and the black sands of the Gobi Desert, keeping pace with him for...
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