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| Harley, Like a Person |
Bauer, Cat |
YA BAUER |
| Fourteen-year-old Harley, an artistic teenager living with her alcoholic father and angry mother, suspects that she is adopted and begins a search for her biological parents. |
| All the Broken Pieces |
Burg, Ann E. |
YA BURG |
| Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past. |
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| Whale Talk |
Crutcher, Chris |
YA CRUTCHER |
| 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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| That's Life Samara Brooks |
Ehrenhaft, Daniel |
YA EHRENHAFT |
| When thirteen-year-old Samara devises a genetics experiment to cover up her involvement in a middle school gambling scheme, she and two classmates make a discovery that causes them to question their beliefs about God, aliens, or "Whoever-you-Are." |
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| Bull's Eye |
Harvey, Sarah N. |
YA HARVEY |
After the death of her aunt, Emily finds that her life has been a lie and she has to search for the truth about where she came from and who she is.
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| Heaven |
Johnson, Angela |
YA JOHNSON |
| Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents. |
| One Last Wish |
McDaniel, Lurlene |
YA MCDANIEL |
| Sarah McGreggor has leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. It is at this critical moment that Sarah learns she was adopted. When the "One Last Wish" check arrives, Sarah decides to search for her birth mother--and a chance for life. |
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| Saffy's Angel |
McKay, Hilary |
J MCKAY |
| After learning that she was adopted, thirteen-year-old Saffron's relationship with her eccentric, artistic family changes, until they help her go back to Italy where she was born to find a special momento of her past. |
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| Breathe My Name |
Nelson, R.A. |
YA NELSON |
| Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her birth mother, who has just been released after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters. |
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| Extra Innings |
Peck, Robert Newton |
YA PECK |
| After a tragic airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate goes to live with his wealthy great-grandfather and his adopted Black great-aunt Vidalia and he finds unexpected solace in the stories of her childhood spent travelling with a Depression-era Negro baseball team. |
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| Doppleganger: The First Escape |
Taylor, G.P. |
YA TAYLOR |
| At Isambard Dunstan's School for Wayward Children life is trouble for fourteen-year-old identical twins Sadie and Saskia Dopple and their friend Erik Morrissey Ganger, but when a mysterious woman adopts Saskia and takes her to a mansion filled with secrets and threats, Sadie and Erik escape the orphanage to save her. |
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| Someone Named Eva |
Wolf, Joan M. |
J WOLF |
| From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history. |
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| Adoption: The Ultimate Teen Guide |
Slade, Suzanne |
YA 362.734 SLADE |
"As an adopted teen, I had a lot of unanswered questions about my past and biological family. This wonderful resource will help adopted young adults as they explore their own histories." -- --Ashley Rhodes-Courter 2004 NACAC Youth Advocate of the Year, 2007 Golden Brick Award Winner, Author - Three Little Words (2008)
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