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This book covers common open adoption situations and how real families have navigated typical issues successfully. Like all useful parenting books, it provides parents with the tools to come to answers on their own, and answers questions that might not yet have come up.
2) Hattie Peck
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All Hattie the hen wanted was an egg of her own, so one day she left her cozy coop to go on an adventure to find all the abandoned eggs in the world.
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AD 490L
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"The Richardson's are having a big family reunion and Chloe can't wait to meet her new baby cousin. But as everyone is gushing over baby Braeden, Chloe can't help but feel different. She doesn't have the Richardson nose like Braeden and she doesn't have the Richardson chin either. She doesn't have them because Chloe was adopted. Chloe doesn't feel like a Richardson at all, until her parents come over and play her "tell me again" game to remind her...
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"This compassionate book explores the dynamics of adoptive families. Young readers learn about the different kinds of adoptive families, the ways they form, the challenges they can face, and strategies for working through those challenges. This book also features a “Many “Identities special feature, several "Did You Know?" facts, a table of contents, a reading comprehension quiz, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers...
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"Young and in love, Momma Red and Papa Yellow Tomato decide to have a baby tomato. However, Momma and Poppa quickly learn that they cannot properly care for their sweet seedling the way and make the difficult decision to release her to another loving tomato family in Hopewell Garden, using the assistance of a helpful ladybug adoption agent. Hello, Sweet Baby is a heartfelt, magical story by a bright new talent about adoption, making tough choices,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This ode to unconditional love is a brand new adventure for New York Times best-selling duo Stick and Stone, in which Stick searches for his family tree and discovers the importance of found family and forever friends.
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Hattie Peck volume 2
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English
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After collecting eggs from all over the world, hatching them, and raising her blended family, Hattie's brood is ready to leave her loving nest and take off on their own adventures.
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The Foster Factory deals with the experiences of David Learmont and his wife Marsha once they retired and started working again as Foster Carers. David claims that if he had written this book as a novel, the characters in it would have been considered 'too outlandish to be credible.' How the elderly couple dealt with egomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, tractor-maniacs, and children who stabbed him and burned down their house are just some of the tales that...
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Although they had always dreamed of having a family, tall, horse-faced Frances and stubby, one-eyed Jack had reconciled themselves to a lifetime of abject loneliness. Then one day, out of nowhere, an infant is dropped into their midst. A fairy tale for adults!
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Families are the foundation of society. When we care for and protect children, we ensure that future generations thrive as well. As veteran foster parents, my husband and I have seen the devastation that abuse and neglect cause. These atrocities solidify our resolve to help the foster children placed in our home to heal and feel loved. Our goal is to develop their God-given talents, help them move past the role of endless victimization, and encourage...
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This book shares true stories of how foster and adopted children inspire new understandings and teach us fifteen important life lessons. Each chapter explores a life lesson taught through the stories of my foster and adopted
children. Lessons important to parenting and personal character include resiliency, compassion, playfulness, persistence, forgiveness, trust, responsiveness, and gratefulness. Lessons vital to successful parenting include how...
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Dos Papás bajo el Árbol de Navidad no es solo un libro para niños. Es un libro para todos que habla de Adopción y Amor.
Esta primera historia de la serie es el diario del primer año de vida de Jayden con sus dos papás. Página tras página este niño simpático y perspicaz intentará contar qué es la adopción y cómo, gracias a esta forma de puro Amor, la existencia de un niño puede cambiar radicalmente.
Jayden les dará momentos conmovedores,...
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The act of adopting children, and the processes and politics around it, have changed drastically in recent decades, mostly for the better. Still, many prospective adoptive parents remain bewildered or apprehensive, and those who have adopted find themselves struggling in ways they hadn't anticipated.
Thicker Than Blood is a comprehensive yet down-to-earth look at adoptive parenting in the twenty-first century. Author Marion Crook's family includes...
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LA FERTILITÉ APPRIVOISÉE répond à des préoccupations courantes
sur la fertilité humaine. Certains ne veulent pas l'actualiser maintenant,
quoiqu'insatisfaits de la contraception choisie, surtout hormonale.
D'autres s'étonnent de ne pas obtenir une grossesse quand vient
le moment o ils la désirent.
Ce livre s'adresse aux couples, femmes, hommes qui s'intéressent à
l'approche naturelle de la fertilité, façon de l'apprivoiser pour éviter
ou...
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English
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All the Sweeter tells the stories of families who have adopted one or more children from the US foster care system. Each of the twelve families interviewed has a dedicated chapter in which at least one representative tells their family's adoption story. Woven through these stories are topical chapters that explore the common challenges these families face, including the complications that accompany transracial adoptions, helping children understand...
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Son dos sentimientos que están latentes en las mujeres. Unas quieren hijos y otras no.Por una parte, vas a aprender todo sobre la maternidad: Cuidados necesarios durante los 9 meses, nutrición con recetas y ejercicios permitidos semana a semana para un embarazo saludable.ESTE LIBRO, OFRECE UN BUEN SENTIDO DE CÓMO CUIDARTE DURANTE EL EMBARAZO POR DENTRO Y POR FUERA, ADEMÁS DE UNA LISTA DE RECOMENDACIONES POR TRIMESTRE, PARA QUE TU BEBÉ CREZCA...
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2014
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A heartbreaking and shocking short story from foster carer Rosie Lewis. Toddler Charlie falls from the second floor window of his tower block home while his mother is busy shooting up in their dirty council flat. Laying alone on a pile of rubbish until concerned neighbours hear him whimpering, Charlie is taken to hospital by police officers who are unable to rouse his mother. With a gash to his head, a terrified Charlie is delivered to foster carer...
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Daniel Stevenson, a lackluster literature teacher, has lived his life as though he has no secrets. The monotony in his life is broken when he gets into a fist fight that he cannot win. The fight is over a young woman, Lydia Perez, who only claims to love Daniel... She was the one who proposed marriage to him after all.
Mary Woods, is the weird Goth girl who is known to carry her toddler in a beach bag and lives in a burnt down house. When Daniel...
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