National Adoption Month | Metropolitan Library System

1) Love without borders: how bold faith opens the door to embracing the unexpected

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From the founder of This Gathered Nest YouTube channel, an uplifting story of Angela Braniff's unusual path to becoming the mother to seven children through various methods of adoption and biological approaches, encouraging women and mothers to embrace the unique purpose that God has put in their lives.
Angela's love for life and her family radiates through everything she does. The Braniff household includes their two biological

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2) A Long Way Home: A Memoir

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Brierley, Saroo

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First it was a media sensation. Then it became the #1 international bestseller A Long Way Home. Now it’s Lion, the major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, and Rooney Mara—nominated for six Academy Awards!

This is the miraculous and triumphant story of Saroo Brierley, a young man who used Google Earth to rediscover his childhood life and home in an incredible journey from India to...

3) The name she gave me

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Culley, Betty

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Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that she has a younger sister living in foster care in a nearby...

4) Five days gone: the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child

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Cumming, Laura

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother's mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village-and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades. In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming's mother was three years old, she was kidnapped from a beach on the Lincolnshire coast of England. There were...

5) Tell me again about the night I was born

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Curtis, Jamie Lee

6) The girl I am, was, and never will be: a speculative memoir of transracial adoption

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Gibney, Shannon

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Two girls on different timelines-- each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee-- find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences. -- adapted from jacket

7) Nobody's son: all Alex ever wanted was a family of his own

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Glass, Cathy

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Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows. When Cathy is asked to foster little Alex, aged 7, her immediate reaction is: Why can't he stay with his present carers for the last month? He's already had many moves since coming into care as a toddler and he'll only be with her a short while before he goes to live with his permanent adoptive family. But the present carers are expecting a baby...

8) Dragon's extraordinary egg

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Gliori, Debi

9) adoption the unpaved road to happiness

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10) You can adopt without debt: creative ways to cover the cost of adoption

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Gumm, Julie

11) My adopted family

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My Adopted Family is the story of a normal day in Adam's life. When classmate Lenny visits his home, he discovers Adam is adopted. Who makes him do his homework? Mom! Who makes Dinner? Dad! Who tucks him in? Mom and Dad! Lenny realizes love makes a family. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

12) Somewhere sisters: a story of adoption, identity, and the meaning of family

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Hayasaki, Erika

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"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"--

13) Against the tides: a memoir

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Hendrick, Margaret Meaney

14) A little ray of sunshine

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Higgins, Kristan

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"Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved the quiet life she wanted-a little bookstore on Cape Cod, an apartment in her grandpa's house, a more or less happily single life-when the biggest secret from her past walked into town and changed everything. A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, Guess what? I'm your son. The one you put up for adoption seventeen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! His name is Matthew...

15) Reframing foster care: filtering your foster parenting journey through the lens of the Gospel

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Johnson, Jason

16) Adoption is a family affair!: what relatives and friends must know

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Johnston, Patricia Irwin

17) Just right family: an adoption story

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Lopez, Silvia

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Winner, 2018 Gwen P. Reichert Gold Medal for Children's Literature, Florida Book Award
Meili, who is six years old and adopted from China, learns that her parents are going to adopt a baby from Haiti. She's not happy. Why do they need a new baby? Their family is just right as it is. As Meili learns more about her new sibling and the importance of being a big sister, will she realize that a new addition can be just right for their family

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18) Rock needs river: a memoir about a very open adoption

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McGrady, Vanessa

19) My adoptive family

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Families come in all shapes and sizes. Readers will learn all about adoptive families through everyday and relatable situations. They may just find out that an adoptive family isn't so different from their own! Title is complete with sweet, colorful photos and easy-to-read text with bolded glossary terms. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO. Glossary of...

20) We belong together: a book about adoption and families

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Parr, Todd