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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
From blurb: "It's like looking into a mirror, and seeing yourself, except it's not you. It's someone else. -- They were both twelve, though they'd been given different birthdays by accident. The had the same color hair, the same color eyes; they were the same height, though Alice was skinner.".
Author
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovers that she is the middle child in her biological family after she gives up her own child for adoption, and she struggles to find belonging as she tries to bond with her stoic older brother and outspoken younger sister.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Run
Author
Language
English
Description
When an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children--all his children--safe.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are wisked off to the village of V.F.D. where a council of elders have enacted thousands of rules about the thousands of crows that inhabit the town and are protected by handyman Hector against Count Olaf, who is after the children's fortune.
Author
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When baby J.J. arrives at his new home, his family is bubbling over with excitement to meet him! The busy family of six is now a family of seven (eight if you include Cheddar the dog). There's always something going on at home -- and lots of noise to go along with it. But J.J. sleeps through it all. That first week, J.J. does all sorts of typical baby things: gets a bath, has his smelly diaper changed and sleeps some more. But when the four kids...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Having shared so many foster homes that they are unable to trust that the family that has adopted them will last, Flora and her brother, Julian, are assisted by their new mother on a journey to resolve their past so they can build a future.
11) 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 ..."--
12) Not for sale
Author
Series
Orca echoes volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When ten-year-old Cyrus sees a For Sale sign plunged into his front lawn, it's a complete and utter disaster. Usually, his younger brother, Rudy, is the scaredy-cat, but for the first time in his life, Cyrus is terrified.
13) The Other Sister
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Josey Muller's regular life—studying with her best friends, planning for the Hollidazzle dance, and gossiping about hot guys—is shaken like a snow globe when her parents drop an A-bomb: she has a sister! Pressured to give up the baby they conceived in high school, her parents are overjoyed to reunite with Audrey. Even Josey's brothers are cool with it.
No longer the only daughter and the "smart one" in the family, Josey struggles
...14) Gracie's Stories
Author
Language
English
Description
Gracie is a precocious six-year-old little girl who loves her mommy and daddy, her friends, and has a fun life. Her Mommy and Daddy have a very big secret, but they have not told her yet! How will Gracie handling finding out that her parents adopted her? Follow Gracie thru six more stories to see how she handles moving, new friends-new school, and a new brother.
See life thru the eyes of a precocious six-year-old girl named Gracie. She how she deals...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Une vie à la SPA c'est l'histoire de Bobby, un chien qui vit à la SPA depuis tout petit. Il s'y fait des amis. Entre anciennes et nouvelles rencontres, Bobby est tantt gai, tantt mélancolique car il est sans cesse confronté à l'indifférence des visiteurs de la SPA. Va-t-il finalement se faire adopter? Qu'adviendra-t-il de ses amis?
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Fraugh and the Surprise Sibling Situation
Fraugh is amazing. Fraugh is adventurous. Fraugh is adopted. If you asked Fraugh, his family is just like every other family. Fraugh never thought much about being adopted, until the day his parents came to him with some really BIG news. How could he possibly share his family with another child? How could he love someone so different? What will Fraugh say? What will Fraugh do?
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Emily is flying with her parents to China to adopt and bring home a new baby sister. She's excited but nervous to travel across the world and very aware that this trip will change her entire life. And the cracks are already starting to show the moment they reach the hotel;--her parents are all about the new baby, and have no interest in exploring. In the adoption trip group, Emily meets Katherine, a Chinese-American girl whose family...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that she has a younger sister living in foster care in a nearby...
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