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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose...
Author
Series
Forever faithful series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Matt and Hannah Bronzan, who have found a new life in the face of devastating loss, are moving forward--toward the adoption of a little girl.
3) Whale Talk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in two voices, high school seniors Chloe Holden and Cash Colton try to determine if she is his foster mother's daughter, Emily, who was kidnapped at age three.
When she became Chloe Holden at three years old, her adoption didn't scar her. Now, fourteen years later, her parents' marriage has fallen apart and her mom has moved them to Joyful, Texas. Everything Chloe loved about her life is gone.-- and she's haunted by feelings of d�ej�a vu....
5) Hooper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future. But life is more complicated off the court. When an incident with the police...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on a single-minded quest to catch an elusive giant trout, sixteen-year-old Lewis Hinton's life in a small Idaho town is turned upside-down when he learns that he is adopted and might be a descendant of French royalty.
8) Reunion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
This touching story allows us to see into the lives of the Baxter family as Erin and Sam attempt to adopt a child. As the family looks forward to a heartwarming reunion, they find out that Mr. and Mrs. Baxter have a secret that could change their lives forever.
Author
Series
Heritage of Lancaster County volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Katie Lapp's identity had been shattered the moment she found the satin baby dress in the attic of her parents Amish home. Painfully torn from her close-knit community in the frightening ordeal called the shunning, Katie - now Katherine Mayfield - sets out to find the ailing birth mother she has never known. Her journey takes her to the peaceful home of Lydia Miller, where electric lights and telephones sets Katherine's mind whirling with "fancy"...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
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...
11) Orphan train
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by luck and chance. This is the story of one such child. As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away. Returning east later in life, Vivian leads a quiet, peaceful existence on the coast...
12) The Alex crow
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Ariel, a Middle Eastern refugee who lives with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber, the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century, and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is"--
14) A mercy
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Ella, seventeen, has a very dark side--Bad Ella, or Bella--but when she is whisked away to Brazil and learns she is adopted, she questions everything she thought she knew about herself.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Spurred on by his best friend, twelve-year-old Thomas uncovers two major family secrets: that he was adopted, and that his perfect-seeming family is part of an other-worldly organization.
Author
Series
Brio girls volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale
Pub. Date
2005, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
High-school junior Becca finds herself resentful when her parents suggest adopting Alvaro, the ill Guatemalan boy staying with them temporarily.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned--from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren--an enigmatic artist and single mother--who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter, Pearl, and a...
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