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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Nora and Ben's younger sister, Birdy, loves to keep secrets. She surprises her family more than once: She hides a kitten in her room. She writes a beautiful poem. One day Birdy watches her mother spit into a tube, ready to send it off to find out more about herself and where her family came from. Birdy spits into a tube, too, when no one sees her. But when the test results come back, there is a surprise. Where did Birdy come from? Nora and Ben must...
Author
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clyde has always taken his role of Rooster at Sunrise Farm very seriously, but when Fran the goat and her hyperactive kid, Rowdy, join the other animals, Clyde's feathers are ruffled by all the attention that Rowdy is getting, and soon he is crowing at all hours just to wake up the kid--until all the animals tell him that they have had enough of his grandstanding.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
8) Whale talk
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
10) The grumpy pets
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 ..."--
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
A perfect gift for any parent celebrating the arrival of a child. With breathtaking illustrations and a sweet rhyming text, Golden Globe and Emmy-winning screenwriter and director Cindy Chupack's debut picture book celebrates the moment a child and parent form a family.
"We waited for you.
Sometimes it seemed everybody we knew even bears at the zoo had a baby or two
but we waited for you.
We dreamed about
...13) Somebody's Girl
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Series
Language
English
Description
Martha knows she is adopted, but she's well-loved and popular, at least until her mother gets pregnant and she feels her parents' attention start to shift. Upset and confused, Martha lashes out at-and loses-her friends. She also makes no secret about her annoyance at being forced to do a school project about sturgeon with Chance, a difficult boy whose foster parents are family friends. To add insult to injury, Martha's birth mother announces that...
16) A Sea of Stars
Author
Language
English
Description
Two girls with two very different lives come together in this beautiful and moving story of friendship and family, by a major new voice in girls' fiction.
Meet Maya. She has a cosy, comfy life with her slightly hippy mum and dad by the sea in Cornwall. But as an only child, Maya feels smothered by her parents' love and longs to be a given more freedom and independence; but what Maya wants more than anything is a sister.
Meet Cat. She's never known...
17) Matteo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Matteo literally sprouts leaves and grows bark during one of his baseball games, he digs into his family tree to find out what it all means.
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Language
Français
Description
La douleur de la perte d'un être cher exprimée avec les mots d'une enfant.
« Personne ne peut revenir en arrière et créer un nouveau départ, mais tout le monde peut commencer aujourd'hui et créer une nouvelle fin. »
À la mort de sa mère, alors qu'elle n'est encore qu'une enfant, la vie de Mélissa s'écroule. Sans amis, délaissée par un père toujours absent, elle doit affronter la vie, seule. Avec courage et obstination, au fil...
19) The Adopted Teen Workbook: Develop Confidence, Strength, and Resilience on the Path to Adulthood
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Language
English
Description
Written for teens who were adopted, this compassionate workbook will help give you the strength, resilience, and confidence you need to thrive-now and on into adulthood. If you're like many other adopted teens, you may wonder about your birth family. You may question why you were given up. And you may even grapple with feelings of isolation, abandonment, and broken trust. These feelings are valid and deserve to be addressed. This workbook is designed...
20) Fenêtres
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Language
Français
Description
"Les fenêtres" s'ouvrent sur le tragique destin de Piotr/Pierre, un enfant victime de la misère, qui traverse une vie marquée par la maltraitance et la délinquance. Son adoption par des parents bienveillants permettra-t-elle, après un parcours judiciaire tumultueux, de refermer le récit sur la rédemption ? Cela reste à découvrir.
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Martine Jolly, enseignante et assesseur au Tribunal pour enfants, a créé le...
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