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Tyrannosaurus (Tatsuya Miyanishi) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A female Maiasaura finds a lost egg in the forest and decides to look after it with her own egg. Surprisingly, a baby Tyrannosaurus hatches from the egg. The greathearted mother accepts and raises him as her own son, Heart. One day, Heart goes to pick berries and comes across another Tyrannosaurus. The foster son of the Maiasaura discovers his real identity."--Provided by publisher.
162) The first escape
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Series
Dopple Ganger chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2008, 2006.
Language
English
Description
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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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Gail and Jon Durbin moved to the Chicago suburbs to set up house as soon as Gail got pregnant. But then she miscarried - once, twice, three times. Determined to expand their family, the Durbins turn to adoption. When several adoptions fall through, Gail's desire for a child overwhelms her. Carli is a pregnant teenager from a blue-collar town nearby, with dreams of going to college and getting out of her mother's home. When she makes the gut-wrenching...
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Polar Bear Explorers' Club volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Stella Starflake Pearl just wants to be part of the Polar Bear Explorers' Club. But Stella's a girl, and everyone knows that girls aren't allowed to be explorers. Stella's ready to prove everyone wrong"--
165) Pretending to dance
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She lives in San Diego with a husband she adores, and they are trying to adopt a baby because they can't have a child on their own. But the process of adoption brings to light many questions about Molly's past and her family-- the family she left behind in North Carolina twenty years before. The mother she says is dead but who is very much alive. The father she adored and whose death sent her running...
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Olivia is new in town, and she can't wait to make new friends. So she volunteers to help out at the pet adoption booth at the Heartlake City World Petacular. But when one of the puppies escapes, it destroys all the hard work that Andrea, Emma, Mia, and Stephanie have put into the Petacular! So much for making friends . . . in just a few minutes, Olivia's made four brand-new enemies. There's only one way to repair the damage - teamwork! Can Olivia,...
167) Missing Sisters
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English
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Alice's life is about to change. She's a skinny orphan. She's never been able to hear too well. And she can't speak too well, either. The only person who seems to care for her-one of the nuns at the orphanage-gets taken away from Alice in a freak accident. And then one day somebody calls Alice by the wrong name. Miami, she says. Miami Shaw. Miami Shaw, who may be Alice's twin sister. Who lives only a few miles away. Who has what Alice has always dreamed...
170) Broadway Barks
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Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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A homeless dog living in a New York City park follows a woman to Broadway Barks, an annual show sponsored by Broadway stars, where he is adopted by a little girl and finds a new home.
172) Paddington
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
While waiting for their daughter to arrive at Paddington Station, Mr. and Mrs. Brown spot a small bear, recently arrived from darkest Peru, and take him home to join their family. This is a fully color illustrated reissue with artwork by R.W. Alley of the classic chapter-book story.
173) Deadly dog days
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"New to the historic town of Metamora, Indiana, Cameron Cripps-Hayman is looking to make friends with her neighbors. What she isn't looking for is one of their bodies floating in the canal. When she and her estranged husband, the town sheriff, are both suspected of murder, Cameron takes crime solving into her own hands, teaming up with her eccentric group of volunteers who dub themselves The Metamora Action Agency"--Page 4 of cover.
174) Escape from fear
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Series
Mysteries in our national parks volume 9
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
While at St. John National Park in the Virgin Islands for a seminar on coral reefs, the Landons help a wealthy thirteen-year-old to find his birth mother, who he believes is in danger.
175) The red blanket
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Tells the story of a single woman who goes to China to adopt a baby.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Baby Blues and Wedding Bells brings prodigal son Zach Corbett back to his small town. There he finds someone else besides his older brother, Steve, and his mother, Lana, waiting for him: eight-year-old Nell. It seems that when Zach left Tobias, Wisconsin, nearly nine years ago, he unknowingly left behind a pregnant girlfriend. Now, even though Steve and his new wife, Annette, adopted Nell and are raising her as their own, Zach knows that he can't...
177) Hijito pollito
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
"Es cierto que la mayoría de pollitos tienen mamás gallina, que los perritos tienen papás perro, los elefantes familias elefante y las hormigas hijas hormiga, pero hay familias diferentes. La mía, por ejemplo. ¡Ser diferente es genial! Yo soy un pollito y mi mamá es una gata. ¡Y me encanta! Pocos comprenden que para mí tener una mamá gata es lo más divertido del mundo. Mamá trota, tiene bigotitos con los que me hace cosquillas, una cola...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"In this heartwarming, wordless picture book that's perfect for dog lovers, a woman visits a park and discovers a pup hiding under a bench--scruffy, scared, and alone. With gentle coaxing, the woman tries to befriend the animal, but the dog is too scared to let her near. Day after day, the woman tries--and day after day, the dog runs away. With perseverance and patience--and help from an enticing tennis ball--a tentative friendship begins. But it's...
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"When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity"--
180) Like cats and dogs
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English
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"The fur flies when new veterinarian Caleb Fitch moves in next door to the Whitman Street Cat Cafe and gets on the wrong side of cafe owner Lauren Harlow. Caleb is cute and Lauren is instantly attracted, but he's a dog person through and through, and Lauren is a dyed-in-the-wool cat person. Still, the friction between them is fascinating, and they can't seem to stay away from each other. Determined to smooth things over, Caleb comes to the rescue...
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