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Growing up, Adrien and his sister Grace competed for everything. It wasn't easy being the adopted sibling, but Adrien tried to get along; Grace didn't. When their scientist parents died, they drifted apart. In their senior year, they are both back at the boarding school where their parents taught. Life gets more complicated when Adrien starts to suspect that Grace might be stealing their parents' research and claiming it as her own-- or worse,...
42) Leapin' leopards
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"Life in a big, diverse family is already an adventure, but life at the Mulligan Wild Animal Park is downright epic! Meet the Magnificent Mulligans, a crazy family with a bunch of cool kids--living the dream as they operate a 1250-acre wild animal park. Except it doesn't feel like much a dream for Hector. Fresh off the tough streets of Bogota, Columbia, Hector can't understand why the Mulligan family cares so much about taking care of animals--especially...
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"Daniel loves birds, and wants to learn how to whistle as a gift for his new adoptive baby sister Angela. On the day of her adoption, Daniel still can't whistle. It is through meeting Jessie, Angela's birthmother, that Daniel may learn the trick to whistle like the birds he loves."--
45) Tocar la luna
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Carlina's dream since she was a baby is to touch the moon. She thinks about it all the time and has tried to achieve it a thousand different ways, but nothing, the moon is always too far away. What Carlina does not know is that sometimes fate manages to give us what we crave most.
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"Jeet is new to town and a little lonely. To combat this, he and his mom start volunteering at a local animal shelter. There, Jeet makes a new friend in a happy puppy, Fudge!"--
"Jeet es nuevo en la ciudad y está un poquito solo. Para combatir su soledad, él y su madre empiezan a hacer de voluntarios en un refugio de animales local. Allí, Jeet hace una nueva amiga: ¡una alegre perrita, Choco! El mundo de Jeet está a punto de hacerse mucho mejor....
48) Logan's journey
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A young boy relates the story of how he was adopted as told to him by his parents.
49) Dark eyes
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Adopted from a Russian orphanage by a wealthy New York family then growing into a rebellious street youth, fifteen year-old Wally resolves to find the birth mother who stole a fortune from her murderous, dark-eyed father.
50) Jeż
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A husband and wife adopt a "hedgehog"--A kid with thorny skin, introvert who doesn't show emotions and suspicious of everything around him. But the loving parents and pleasant environment change him ... The first Polish story about adoption aimed at small children.
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This charming illustrated book encourages adoptive families -- children and adults alike -- to embrace their super-powerful stories and see themselves as the inspiring heroes they are! Young readers will relate to Super Alec, an energetic little boy who summons all his might to prepare his home for the long-awaited arrival of his equally super baby sister.
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Jeet. su perrita Choco y su Papá están en el parque acuático local para hacer de voluntarios en un evento de adopción del refugio para animales. Después de terminar de ayudar, es hora de ir a algunas altracciones, incluido el mejor tobogán de agua. ¡Bieen! Pero antes de que les toque el turno, tendrán que aprender los valores sij de la paciencia y la compasión.
Jeet, his puppy Fudge, and their Dad are at the local waterpark to volunteer...
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"A unique and tender story to about the adoption process and the arrival of a long-awaited child." -- Amazon.com
Los hijos adoptivos son muy deseados. Una dulce historia para contar la espera de los padres adoptivos. La llegada de la niña o niño y la felicidad de la familia. Uno de los pocos álbumes que hablan de la adopción de una forma tan hermosa. Un libro tan tierno como necesario.
56) Nini
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Long before Nini was born, she was in a safe place where a familiar voice promised her a loving home. But once she was born, that soft voice was replaced by the words of care givers in an orphanage. Though they were kind, Nini missed the soft voice and the promises it made. Then, one day, a man and a woman on the other side of the world learned that their dreams were about to come true. They would finally have a baby to love. When they all met, Nini...
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Haunted book store (Light novels) volume 1
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Kaori lives in an otherworldly bookstore with her adoptive father. Together, they provide books to the strange denizens of the spirit realm. But Kaori's peaceful days come to an end when she rescues an injured boy from the streets--a human, like her, from the mortal realm. The boy's name is Suimei, and he's an exorcist, the natural enemy of all spirits. Can Kaori convince Suimei that the line between human and spirit is far hazier than he thinks?...
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In the kingdom of Linevan, it was prophesized that the king and queen would bear twins, one male and one female, and that the female child, on her 16th birthday, would cause the world to end and therefore must be immediately executed. The queen, who could not bear to murder her daughter, sent her to live with a family friend and his two children outside of town. This Scrapped Princess, now named Pacifica, grows up with two siblings: a powerful sorcerer...
59) Takio
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"Taki and Olivia are sisters in an adoptive family--and they're driving each other crazy! Every day, their overprotective mother makes them walk to school together, eat lunch together, and play together--they can't get away from each other! But when a secret experiment goes catastrophically wrong, the squabbling siblings suddenly find that they have superpowers. They're the first actual superheroes in the entire world--and it is awesome! But are the...
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"Story of the heart. Kaori and Suimei have finally realized how they feel about each other, but their love will have to wait--the bookstore is in terrible danger. One day, a fox spirit called Hakuzousu storms in, screaming, "The spirit realm has no use for such an unscrupulous bookstore!" He blames his daughter's love for a human on the influence of human books. Shinonome can't just shrug off such an insult, and Kaori fears that a fight between her...