Search Results: Returned 10 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 10
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2011., Primary, Viking Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An understanding cat helps a young Korean girl adjust to her new home in America.
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[2014]., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
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2023., Adolescent, Scribner Call No: B MAS Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Oksana Masters was born in Ukraine--in the shadow of Chernobyl--seemingly with the world against her. She was born with one kidney, a partial stomach, six toes on each foot, webbed fingers, no right bicep, and no thumbs. Her left leg was six inches shorter than her right, and she was missing both tibias. Relinquished to the orphanage system by birth parents daunted by the staggering cost of what would be their child's medical care, Oksana encountered numerous abuses, some horrifying. Salvation came at age seven when Gay Masters, an unmarried American professor who saw a photo of the little girl and became haunted by her eyes, waged a two-year war against stubborn adoption authorities to rescue Oksana from her circumstances. In America, Oksana endured years of operations that included a double leg amputation. Still, how could she hope to fit in when there were so many things making her different? As it turned out, she would do much more than fit in. Determined to prove herself and fueled by a drive to succeed that still smoldered from childhood, Oksana triumphed in not just one sport but four--winning against the world's best in elite rowing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, and road cycling competitions. Now considered one of the world's top athletes, she is the recipient of seventeen Paralympic medals, the most of any US athlete of the Winter Games, Paralympic or Olympic. This is Oksana's astonishing story of journeying through a series of dark tunnels--and how, with her mother's love, she finally found her way into the light. Her message to anyone who doesn't fit in: you can find a place where you excel--where you have worth"--Provided by the publisher.
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c2000., Little, Brown and Company Call No: E LEW Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A woman describes how she went to China to adopt a special baby girl. Based on the author's own experiences.
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-- Crazy cakes.c2000., Primary, Little, Brown Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A woman describes how she went to China to adopt a special baby girl. Based on the author's own experiences.
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2017., Juvenile, Puffin Books Call No: B BRIERLEY Edition: Young readers' edition. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes how the author was accidentally separated from his family and home in India as a child, how he survived as an orphan in Kolkata, his adoption by an Australian family, and his search for his biological family as an adult.
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2004., Preschool, Scholastic Call No: E Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of a single woman who goes to China to adopt a baby.
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-- Story of adoption, identity, and the meaning of family2022., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: 362.7 HAY Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and identity"--
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2013., Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifth-grader Anna is concerned that her baby sister Kaylee, adopted from China three months ago, is not thriving so she and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project that may save the day.
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[2014]., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eleven-year-old Anna takes a trip to China and learns more about herself and her Chinese heritage.