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"England, 1970. On the one-year anniversary of the Harrington family's darkest night, their beautiful London home goes up in flames. Mrs. Harrington, the two children, and live-in nanny Rita relocate to Foxcote Manor, ostensibly to recuperate. But the creeping forest, where lost things have a way of coming back, is not as restful as it seems. When thirteen-year-old Hera discovers a baby girl abandoned just beyond their garden gate, this tiniest, most...
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Mermaid tales volume 20
Pub. Date
2020.
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92 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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English
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Pearl Swamp is not happy when her selection as the next winter princess is overshadowed by her family's decision to adopt a baby boy.
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Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 4
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English
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Bad kitty is not pleased when a baby joins her family. Includes fun facts and tips for training a cat to perform tricks.
87) Jars of glass
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Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Two sisters, aged fourteen and fifteen, offer their views of events that occur during the year after their mother is diagnosed with schizophrenia and their family, including a recently adopted Russian orphan, begins to disintegrate.
88) Our subway baby
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English
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"Some babies are born into their families. Some are adopted. This is the story of how one baby found his family in the New York City subway." So begins the true story of Kevin and how he found his Daddy Danny and Papa Pete. Written in a direct address to his son, Pete's moving and emotional text tells how his partner, Danny, found a baby tucked away in the corner of a subway station on his way home from work one day. Pete and Danny ended up adopting...
89) The risk of us
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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What is the cost of motherhood? When The Risk of Us opens, we meet a forty-something woman who deeply wants to become a mother. The path that opens up to her and her husband takes them through the foster care system, with the goal of adoption. And when seven-year-old Maresa comes into their lives, with her inch-deep dimples and a voice that can beam to the moon, their hearts fill with love. But her rages and troubles threaten to crack open their marriage....
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Greenglass House volume 2
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Milo is stuck spending the winter holidays in a house full of strange guests who are not what they seem-again! He will have to work with friends old and new to uncover clues in search of a mysterious map and a famous smuggler's lost haul"--
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When Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee an estate sale, she discovers that her grandmother left behind more than trinkets and photo frames - she provided a path to the truth behind Ivy's adoption. Shocked, Ivy seeks clues to her past, but a key piece to the mystery is missing. Twenty-four years earlier, Harvey James finds an abandoned newborn who gives him a sense of human connection for the first time in his life. His desire to care for...
95) Family storms
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Series
Storms volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
96) Lion
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English
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A young man rediscovers not only his childhood life and home, but an identity long-since left behind.
97) Lola gets a cat
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Series
Lola books (Anna McQuinn) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
More than anything Lola would like a cat, but first she must learn how to care for it.
100) Whale talk
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English
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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.
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