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Adoption Sometimes Causes Confusing Behaviors...
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Megan's Birthday Tree: A Story about Open Adoption
by Laurie Lears (2005, Whitman, 15.95/hardback)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 12.60]
Megan is adopted, but she and her parents keep in touch with
her birth mother, Kendra. Every year, Kendra decorates the tree
she planted when Megan was born and takes a picture of it to
send to Megan. Megan cherishes this Birthday Tree, for it ties
her and Kendra together. But one day Kendra writes that she is
getting married and moving to a different town. Will she forget
Megan, without the tree to remind her? Color. Grades 1-4. [8” x
10”...32 pages]
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All About
Adoption: How Families Are Made & How
Kids Feel About It
by Marc Nemiroff, et al. (2004, Magination Press,
9.95)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 7.86]
Explores the what, how, and why of adoption, as well as the
many feelings kids can experience as they grow up. And for parents,
an extensive afterword discusses the unique practical and emotional
dimensions of adoptive children and their families, with suggestions
for answering the most challenging questions. Color. Grades K-3. [8” x
10”...48 pages]
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The Coffee Can Kid
by Jan Czech (2002, Child Welfare League, 8.95)
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Card Price...Less 21% = 7.07]
As a little girl and her adoptive father go through the contents
of an old coffee can, she is doing more than looking through
some old pictures. She is, with the help of her adoptive father,
establishing a connection to her past and her origins, and
coming to terms with the facts of her birth and adoption. Color.
Grades K-5. [8” x
10”...32 pages]
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An American Face
by Jan Czech (2000, Child & Family Press, 8.95)
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Card Price...Less 21% = 7.07]
Adopted from Korea, Jessie waits for the day he will get his
American citizenship. And, he thinks, an American face. This
adorably-illustrated book describes his touching transition.
Color. Grades K-4. [8” x 10”...32 pages]
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Let's Talk About It: Adoption
by Fred Rogers (1994, Puffin, 6.99)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 5.52]
Discusses what it means to be part of a family and examines
some feelings that adopted children may have. Rogers teaches
children to talk and play about their feelings when they're young,
so they can take that "gift" with them through life.
Color photos. Grades K-3. [8” x 8”...32 pages]
This book is part of the popular Mr.
Roger's
Series.
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Mommy Far, Mommy Near: An Adoption Story
by Carol Peacock (2000, Whitman, 15.95/hardback)
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Card Price...Less 21% = 12.60]
Elizabeth feels a range of emotions when she learns that she
has two mommies. One in China where she was born, and one in
America. Color. Grades K-2. [8” x 10”...32
pages]
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Stellaluna
by Janell Cannon (1993, Harcourt Brace, 17.00/hardback)
[Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 13.43]
Accidentally knocked into a bird's nest, a baby fruit bat is
adopted by the birds. And when she's finally reunited with
her mother and the other bats, she learns that the differences
between bats and birds are much less significant than her newfound
friendship. Color. Grades 1-5. [10.5” x 10”...48
pages]
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The Little Green Goose
by Adele Sansone (1999, North-South Books, 6.95)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 5.49]
Single fatherhood gets a boost in this identity tale of a
goose who yearns for a child. When the egg he adopts hatches
into a brilliantly-colored green dragon, the other members
of the barnyard make fun of his child's origins. The underlying
message of the tale—that love, not biology, makes a family.
Color. Grades K-2. [8.5” x 11”...36 pages]
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My New Family: A First Look at Adoption
by Pat Thomas (1999, Barron's, 6.99)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 5.52]
Children are sometimes upset to discover that they have been
adopted. This book helps them understand how lucky they are
to have loving, adoptive parents, and how lucky their parents
are to have them. Color. Grades K-3. [9.5” x 8”...32
pages]
This book is part of The A
First Look At Series.
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You're Not My Real Mother!
by Molly Friedrich (2004, Little Brown, 15.99/hardback)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 12.63]
Drawn from the author's everyday life as an adoptive parent,
this cheerful yet tender parent-child conversation offers a response
to children who've ever asked their adoptive parent why they
don't look like one another. Color. Grades K-3. [10.5” x
10.5”...32 pages]
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We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo
by Linda Girard (1992, Whitman, 6.95)
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Card Price...Less 21% = 5.49]
Nine-year-old Benjamin Koo Andrews, adopted from Korea as an
infant, describes what it's like to grow up adopted from another
country. Color. Grades 2-5. [8” x 9”...32 pages]
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How I Was Adopted
by Joanna Cole (1995, Mulberry Books, 6.99)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 5.52]
This is a story of how babies are born and how children grow, a story of what makes people different and what makes them the same. But most of all, this is a book about love. And in the end, Sam's story comes full circle, inviting young readers to learn and to tell the stories of how they were adopted. Color. Grades K-3.. [8” x 9”...40 pages]
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