By: Leslie Marmon Silko

Product Description: Young Indigo is ripped from her tribe, the Sand Lizard people, by white soldiers who destroy her home and family.

Charlotte Lopez
By: Charlotte Lopez Susan Dworkin

A foster child from the age of two, Charlotte Lopez bounced around foster homes until she went to live in a home that she expected to be permanent.

By: Chris Crutcher

"T. J. Jones, the mixed-race, larger-than-life, heroic, first-person narrator of this novel, lays out the events of his senior year, with many digressions along the way. The central plot involves T.

Photography of a family
By: Fred Rogers

"The premise of this book — that it is good for families to talk about feelings — is a welcome one to apply to the subject of adoption. Rogers presents a simple look at three adoptive families.

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By: Michelle Madrid-Branch
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Product Description: The love that inspires adoption is revealed as a birthmother opens her heart while adoptive parents open their arms for a child.

By: Ying Ying Fry
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Product Description: In this view of China adoption from a child's perspective, eight-year-old Ying Ying Fry, a Chinese American girl growing up in San Francisco, returns to her orphanage to remember what it is like and to write a story so that other a

By: Jean Davies Okimoto

Product Description: Where did she come from? Molly Jane Fletcher was adopted. She's known it for as long as she can remember. It's not something that usually bothers her, but lately, it's all she can think about.

By: Dana Reinhardt

Product Description: Simone is adopted. She's always known it, but she's never wanted to know anything about where she came from. She's happy with her family just as it is.

By: Greg Leitich Smith

Product Description: Elias, Shohei, and Honoria have always been three united against That Which is The Peshtigo School. But suddenly understanding and sticking up for a best friend isn't as easy as it used to be.

By: Suzanne Slade

"As part of a series on social issues for inquisitive teens, this book answers questions and recommends resources and coping strategies regarding adoption.

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