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2017.
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Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate--the first automobile any of them have seen--and a stranger arrives.In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. . Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, translates...
5) Lion
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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"As a five-year-old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, from Australia, I found my way back. This is what happened in between..." (Front cover).
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[2015]
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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....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
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.
9) Just Like Me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In this story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world, three very different girls, adopted as babies from the same Chinese orphanage, spend a week at a summer camp, where the adoption agency coordinator wants them to journal their "bonding" experience.
11) The red blanket
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tells the story of a single woman who goes to China to adopt a baby. Based on the author's life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In moving and refreshingly candid prose, Rescuing Julia Twice tells Trasters foreign-adoption story, from dealing with the bleak landscape and inscrutable adoption handlers in Siberia, to her feelings of inexperience and ambivalence at being a new mother in her early forties, to her growing realization over months then years that something was "not quite right" with her daughter, Julia, who remained cold and emotionally detached. Why wouldn't she...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The United States' most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete tells how she overcame Chernobyl disaster- caused physical challenges through sheer determination and a drive to succeed to win the world's best in elite rowing, biathlon, cross-countryskiing, and road cycling competitions.
Oksana was born in Ukraine-- in the shadow of Chernobyl. She was born with one kidney, a partial stomach, six toes on each foot, webbed fingers, no right bicep,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
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.
Author
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Anna Wang books volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Eleven-year-old Anna takes a trip to China and learns more about herself and her Chinese heritage.
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