Ruby Sisson Library

This title examines how international adoption affects individuals and society, investigates how people are working to improve international adoption policies and regulations, and analyzes the controversies and conflicting viewpoints surrounding the issue. Features include a glossary, selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards....

Provides readers information on everything that is involved in adopting a dog from a shelter.

Readers learn the steps to getting a pet as they follow Meg and her family from their decision to acquire a pet to the adoption of their dog, Coco, from a shelter.

Discusses what it means to be part of a family and examines some feelings that adopted children may have.

True story of an abandoned dog that's rescued from the desert and becomes a therapy dog working with the homeless, abused and otherwise at-risk children.

This is a collection of hilarious and heartwarming stories of dogs, cats, and all types of pets given a second chance, and the human animal lovers who rescued them.

Explains what adoption is, why a parent might put a child up for adoption, and what is special about being adopted.

An adopted girl welcomes her baby brother whom her parents have also adopted from Russia, and she describes the reasons for adoption, what life is like as an adopted child, and her interactions with other adopted children.

""Some babies are born into their families. Some are adopted. This is the story of how one baby found his family in the New York City subway." So begins the true story of Kevin and how he found his Daddy Danny and Papa Pete. Written in a direct address to his son, Pete's moving and emotional text tells how his partner, Danny, found a baby tucked away in the corner of a subway station on his way home from work one day. Pete and Danny ended up adopting...