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22) My Mei Mei
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Antonia gets her wish when her parents return to China to bring home a Mei Mei, or younger sister, for her.
23) Waiting for May
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy looks forward to the day when a new sister, who will be adopted from China, joins his family.
Author
Series
Anna Wang books volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
c2016
Description
Based on the remarkable true story of Taj Rowland. Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in India, sold to a Christian orphanage, and then adopted by an unsuspecting couple in the United States. It takes months before the boy can speak enough English to tell his parents that he already has a family back in India. Horrified, they try their best to track down his Indian family, but all avenues lead...
30) Red butterfly
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In China, a foundling girl with a deformed hand raised in secret by an American woman must navigate China's strict adoption system when she is torn away from the only family she has ever known.
31) We are adopted
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"Babies come from airports" tells about the adventures of a boy when his mommy brings home his new sister. Calling that special day the "Gotcha Day". He knows just exactly what to say: "We met you at the airport." He waved at planes above. But right now, all she needs to know is ... Babies come from love.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Fasten Your Sweet Belt is a must read for any adoptive parent. Using personal stories, firsthand accounts from adopted children and refreshing humor, the author and her daughter dispense insightful wisdom on the do's and don'ts of the journey of building a family through older child adoption.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Already the biological parents of a seven-year-old son and a five-year-old daughter, Claude Knobler and his wife decided to adopt Nati, a five-year-old Ethiopian boy who seemed different from Knobler in every conceivable way. In this wonderfully written memoir, Knobler explains how his experiences raising Nati led him to learn a lesson that applied equally well to parenting his biological children: It's essential to spend the time we are given with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Written by Melissa Guida-Richards--a transracial, transnational, and late-discovery adoptee--this book unpacks the mistakes you don't even know you're making and gives you the real-life tools to be the best parent you can be, to the child you love more than anything."--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"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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