|
| The Angel Factory by Terence
Blacker | YA FIC BLACKER |
When Thomas opens a secret file on his father's computer,
he discovers that in his perfect world, nothing is what it seems -- not even himself.
The truth -- if he is brave enough to face it -- can be found only in the place
they call "The Angel Factory."
| Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher |
YA FIC CRUTCHER |
The bad news for the Cutter High swim team is that they
don't have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway. Adopted,
multiracial, brilliant, all-around good guy TJ Jones formed the team in protest
- he hates the attitude problem of the die-hard Cutter High athletes. He has set
his sights on a varsity letter, but the quest may be more important than the goal
...
| The Snake-Stone by Berlie Doherty |
YA FIC DOHERTY |
James is a championship diver, with a shot for the Olympics.
But where did his talent really come from? His adoptive parents cannot tell him
- so, after years of unanswered questions, he does the unthinkable. He breaks
training, and runs off to the farmland of his birth, with nothing but a mysterious
stone shaped like a snake. Can he use it to unlock his past?
| Pictures
of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff | YA
FIC GIFF | A troublesome 12-year-old
orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only time
she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about
her.
| Parents Wanted by George Harrar |
YA FIC HARRAR |
Andy Fleck's dad has been in jail since Andy was 10, and
his mother gave him up as "too hard to handle." Andy, who has ADD, is
struggling to adjust to his latest family - his adoptive parents Jeff and Laurie
- and is desperately hoping he won't mess up his new life … but can he keep
them from giving up on him?
| Heaven by Angela Johnson |
YA FIC JOHNSON |
Marley has lived happily in Heaven since she was two, when
her mother found a postcard postmarked HEAVEN, OH and decided that was the place
for her family. But one day a letter arrives from Alabama, and Marley's life is
turned upside down. Where can she go for answers, when she's been deceived by
those she should be able to trust the most?
| Someone to Love by Frances Lin Lantz |
YA FIC LANTZ | Although
at odds with her parents over their decision to adopt a baby, fifteen-year-old
Sarah finds herself drawn to the birth mother, who is having second thoughts about
giving up her child.
| Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian |
YA FIC MAGORIAN |
Timid, scrawny, abused Willie Beech is sent to the English
countryside to escape World War II. At first, he is terrified of everything, even
of Mr. Tom, the gruff but kindly old man who has taken him in. Gradually, he forgets
the past and learns to love his new world, but when a telegram summons him back
to London, he must return. Weeks pass with no word from Willie, so Mr. Tom sets
out to look for the boy he has come to love as a son.
|
Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay |
YA FIC 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 memento of her past - a stone angel, the only thing
she can remember from when she was small.
| Rewind by William Sleator |
YA FIC SLEATOR |
Shortly after finding out that he is adopted, Peter runs
out of his house and into the street in a rage. Hit by a car, he is given the
ultimate do-over: to go back to any point in time before that fateful moment,
and alter the events leading up to his death. If he fails, he will die again-this
time, for good.
| Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt |
YA FIC VOIGT | The
four Tillerman children finally have a home at their grandmother's farm on the
Maryland shore. It's what Dicey has dreamed of for her three younger siblings,
but after watching over the others for so long, it's hard to let go. Who is Dicey,
if she's no longer the caretaker for her family?
Nonfiction
The
Face in the Mirror: Teenagers Talk About Adoption
| by Marion Crook | 362.734
CROOK |
The Family:
Opposing Viewpoints
| edited by Mary E. Williams | 306.85
FAMILY |
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updated
November 28, 2007 |
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