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33 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"This modern take on the 'where did you come from' adoption book celebrates open adoption. Through words and illustrations, the characters express the immense amount of love that everyone involved in the process has for the adoptee."--Back cover.
3) Lost cat
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36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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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.
4) Just like me
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246 pages ; 22 cm
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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.
5) Waffles
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Puppy place volume 68
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English
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"Waffles is exuberant, playful, and smart - maybe too smart! She's quite the escape artist and Lizzie has her hands full trying to keep tabs on her." --
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237 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
Erin Powers navigates growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee being raised by a white, closeted lesbian mother. Based on the author's experience.
Two girls on different timelines -- each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee -- find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences. -- adapted from jacket...
12) The grumpy pets
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English
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"Billy is a grumpy boy who's not like the other kids. His mother takes him and his sister, Sara, to the animal shelter one Saturday in hope of cheering him up. But the pets he sees are too happy for his taste. Then he finds the grumpy pets..."--
14) Autofocus
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345 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Description
"A senior photography project gives Maude the perfect opportunity to search for more information about her birth mother--but she may not like what she finds"--
15) Maverick and me
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
Description
An abandoned dog found under a freeway find his forever home with a little girl named Scarlett.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
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English
Description
Broccoli is a big, noisy dog at Beezley's Animal Shelter who desperately wants to be adopted--but it seems like his loud bark and his trick of throwing his water dish in the air and catching it is not working.
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English
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Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she does not get a part in the school play she wonders if it is because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so Dara becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.
19) Clover's luck
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English
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Clover, who wants to change her bad luck, accepts a volunteer position at a pet adoption agency unlike any other and soon finds herself in a world of fairy horses, dragons with temperamental snouts, wizards, princesses, and, unfortunately, witches.
20) Pick a pup
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
After observing different types of dogs in his neighborhood, Sam and Gram go to the local pet shelter to choose a puppy.
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