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Publisher
Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"When a cat-loving family decides to bring home a pet, their quest reveals the highs and lows of everyday family life in this heartwarming story perfect for kitten lovers and everyone who's ever longed for a pet."--Provided by publisher.
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English
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"Get ready for your new best friend. If you're longing for the pitter-patter of four furry feet, you have some homework to do. When new cat owners aren't prepared, it's the cat who suffers, so it's very important to consider all angles of cat care and ownership before making the commitment. This book starts with the process of selecting a suitable cat for your home and lifestyle and goes on to discuss the present and future requirements of feeding,...
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English
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Two families, open to love-exploring and explaining adoption at birth
Leap into a warm-hearted tale about a little squirrel who was adopted at birth! Join Sammy as Mom and Dad Rabbit bring him to meet his first family. With its whimsical illustrations and appealing rhymes, this storybook is perfect to read aloud to children age 3-5.
Open adoption can be complex as well as joyful. Sammy's story opens the door for kids to talk honestly about their...
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English
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Pip and Me is a story of love between a child and their parent who found each other through adoption. Years after being brought together, Pip's early life trauma continues to significantly impact their daily lives.
Pip is nine years old, struggling with everyday life, feeling scared, out of control and sometimes angry. This book will take you on a journey of how an average day feels for Pip and how that same day is seen from a parent's perspective....
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English
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With compassion for adopted individuals and adoptive and birth parents alike, Adam Pertman explores the history and human impact of adoption, explodes the corrosive myths surrounding it, and tells compelling stories about its participants as they grapple with issues relating to race, identity, equality, discrimination, personal history, and connections with all their families. For the first edition of this groundbreaking examination of adoption and...
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English
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There are over 45 topics in this book to help you with deciding and applying to go this route, getting through the training, home study, legal, and matching processes, and to equip you with practical insights for the parenting journey.
Inside you'll learn:
- what foster care adoption is and which children can be adopted
- why some families waited and how some pursued this path after facing infertility
- how some had to be persistent and how...
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English
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A Child's Journey from Foster Care to Adoption
My life tells the parable of a child who finds the ultimate adoption through being fostered. At the tender age of five, I was taken from the custody of my natural parents and turned over as a ward of the state. After years of searching for my identity, I was able to find it through my beautiful foster mother Jimmie. She showed me the way to an adoption that supersedes natural logic. Many that travel...
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English
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The girl sat still for a few seconds. Kate could hear the sound of the fruit juice being drained through the straw, and the girl's chest heaved once inside the curl of Kate's arm. Then, quick as a young frisky cub, she spun and threw her arms around Kate's neck. Tears were streaming down her cheeks and her face was contorted with the effort not to cry. She nuzzled awkwardly against Kate and kissed her over and over with little pecks that covered her...
9) Finding you
Author
Publisher
New Frontier Publishing Europe, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a boy and a dog meet, an unbreakable and life-changing bond is created. A touching and timely story about welcoming newcomers and those in need." --back cover.
10) Donut
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Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 63
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
Description
Welcome to the Puppy Place! Where every puppy finds a home. Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. Lizzie's so excited to head up into the country for her Aunt Amanda's sleepaway doggy camp to learn new ways to train dogs. But they're both surprised by the arrival of Donut, a Lab-Shepherd mix puppy who might not join her family...
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Français
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Les familles homoparentales sont aujourd'hui de plus en plus nombreuses et, surtout, visibles. En effet, la PMA et l'adoption offrent aux homosexuels ou bisexuels la possibilité d'avoir des enfants de manière légale. Certains rencontrent une mère porteuse et tentent l'aventure de la GPA. Cependant, quelle que soit la voie choisie pour avoir un enfant, le projet ne sera ni simple, ni accessible à tous. Cela étant, des centaines de milliers d'enfants...
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English
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Feel the heartwarming joy and anticipation in welcoming a new baby in New York Times bestselling children's book author Sally Lloyd-Jones, Little One, We Knew You'd Come. This endearing story about parent's hope and anticipation of a new baby is full of lyrical prose and cute animal illustrations.
Overflowing with joy, Little One, We Knew You'd Come features Sally Lloyd-Jones beautiful rhyming text that shows a parent's love and anticipation for...
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English
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Second Time Foster Child links parents locked into a custody relinquishment nightmare with other historically oppressed peoples. Child welfare attorneys, judges, and child welfare professionals will gain understanding of the parents' perspective of a no-fault dependency case.
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English
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Beneath the Tapestry devotional walks alongside hopeful adoptive parents and families through the process of adoption and beyond. Natalie Schram shares her family's stories of completing their first home study, finding adoption experts to support them, walking through the tangled mess of fear and unknowns, battling through spiritual warfare, experiencing unsightly beauty, and navigating life after placement. Beneath the Tapestry shares many details...
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to TV star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one story, a tragic one. But India's an adoptive mom herself and...
17) Tell No One
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English
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A stunning memoir of one man's search for his birth parents, which uncovered an astonishing global scandal at the heart of the Catholic Church.
Brendan Watkins was eight years old when his parents told him he was adopted. When he was in his late twenties, he started searching for his birth parents and eventually discovered the identity of his birth mother: he was told she was a Catholic nun. And she wanted nothing to do with him.
For the...
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English
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Young and in love, Momma Red and Poppa Yellow Tomato decide to have a baby tomato. However, Momma and Poppa quickly learn that they cannot properly care for their sweet seedling the way and make the difficult decision to release her to another loving tomato family in Hopewell Garden, using the assistance of a helpful ladybug adoption agent.
Hello Sweet Baby is a heartfelt, magical story by a bright new talent about adoption, making tough choices,...
19) Family Secrets
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English
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Family Secrets: The Turbulent Years is Book 2 of the Family of Secrets and Lies series. Valarie experiences the turbulent teen years as she prepares to go away to college and learns valuable lessons and skills on becoming an independent young woman. During vacations from school, she resides in numerous foster homes and foster group homes while experiencing abuse and neglect within the foster care system.
As a college student she is confronted with...
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English
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All I' ve ever wanted is the deep sense of belonging associated with knowing and being connected with who and where I' ve come from.Penny Zagarelou-Mackieson always knew she was adopted. But she didn' t know she was swapped at birth.After a lifetime grappling with issues of identity and belonging, outlined in her earlier book Adoption Deception, Penny discovered that her natural mother, according to her adoption records, is genetically unrelated...
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