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Life of a cactus volume 1
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English
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New friends and a mystery help Aden, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
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From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives "I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting. With brilliance and beauty, Celeste Ng dissects a microcosm of American society just when we need to see it beneath the microscope ..."--Jodi Picoult, New York Times -bestselling author of Small Great Things and...
3) Boomer
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The puppy place. Main series volume 38
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English
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When Lizzie gets a call about a big, mixed-breed puppy that needs a place to stay, she must try to take care of him without ruining her mom's plans to have friends stay over for a long weekend.
4) A mercy
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In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.
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Anna Wang books volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Fifth-grader Anna is concerned that her baby sister Kaylee, adopted from China three months ago, is not thriving so she and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project that may save the day.
6) See no color
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English
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Alex has always identified herself as a baseball player, the daughter of a winning coach, but when she realizes that is not enough she begins to come to terms with her adoption and her race.
7) The D.O.G
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English
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Lola is determined to get a dog, but first she must convince her mother and grandfather, get the rules changed in her building, and a few other things.
9) Deadly deals
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English
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After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. But soon the birth mother reappears, first demanding more money, then the twins themselves.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
12) Red butterfly
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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In China, a foundling girl with a deformed hand raised in secret by an American woman must navigate China's strict adoption system when she is torn away from the only family she has ever known.
13) Scout
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The puppy place. Main series volume 7
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English
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When the Peterson family agrees to foster a German shepherd named Scout, Charles and Lizzie quickly realize they have a very special puppy on their hands and set out to find the perfect home for him.
15) Maggie and Max
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English
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Charles and Lizzie Peterson try to find a home for Maggie and Max, an inseparable puppy and kitten, before Christmas.
18) Princess
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English
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When Charles discovers Princess, a cute but spoiled Yorkie puppy, he is determined to help her find a new home where she can get the love and attention she needs.
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