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2) Just like me
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English
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In this story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world, three very different girls, adopted as babies from the same Chinese orphanage, spend a week at a summer camp, where the adoption agency coordinator wants them to journal their "bonding" experience.
3) Found
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Series
The missing volume 1
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English
Description
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
4) Son
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Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
5) Molly
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Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 31
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. When Charles offers to foster Molly he thinks that she is a very sweet puppy. But then Charles finds out that she is a Rottweiler. He's never been scared of a foster dog before. Can he overcome his fear and find this gentle pup a home?
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English
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The story of Ariel, a Middle Eastern refugee who lives with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber, the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century, and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow.
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English
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From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned-- from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose...
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English
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"A puppy comes to live with his adoptive mother, who is a cat."--
When the puppy comes to live with his new mom, he is nervous. His new mom has stripes and he doesn’t. But his mom says she likes that they look different. The puppy's new mom does all the things other parents do: she plays with him, takes care of him, and sometimes even makes him mad! But when he's feeling sad, she knows just what to say.
9) Lost cat
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Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
Lulu (Hilary McKay) volume 6
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English
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"Seven-year-old Lulu adopts a hamster and must keep it a secret from her grandmother when she and her cousin Mellie spend the night"--
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Critter club volume 9
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English
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Description
As Christmas nears, Amy and her friends in the Critter Club try to find a home for two adorable guinea pigs.
13) Buddy
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Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Charles and Lizzie Peterson foster dogs and find them the perfect homes. Will they be able to take care of Skipper's litter and fine forever homes for Skipper and all of her pups, too?
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Gifted clans volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old Hattie Oh casts a dangerous spell so her adopted sister, Riley, will get a share of her inherited magic, Riley must undertake a near-impossible quest to save Hattie from death.--
15) Special delivery
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Series
Main Street (Ann M. Martin) volume 8
Language
English
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Flora and Ruby's Aunt Allie is about to adopt the baby she always wanted and the whole family is excited.
17) Gizmo
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 32
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
89 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After taking in Gizmo the Sheltie puppy, the Petersons learn this little puppy must have something to do before his energy destroys everything in Charles and Lizzie's house.
19) Jars of glass
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Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Two sisters, aged fourteen and fifteen, offer their views of events that occur during the year after their mother is diagnosed with schizophrenia and their family, including a recently adopted Russian orphan, begins to disintegrate.
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