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The White Swan Express: A Story about Adoption
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Jean Davies Okimoto, Elaine M Aoki, Meilo So (Illustrator)
This lovely story of people who travel to China to be united with their daughters describes the adoption process step by step and the anxiety, suspense, and delight of becoming a family. As the moon shines on four baby girls, fast asleep in an orphanage, the sun rises over four homes in North America as the people who live there get ready to start ...
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Molly by Any Other Name
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Molly, who is Asian and adopted by non-Asian parents, searches for her birthmother in this moving novel on a timely, controversial issue. "A touching . . . purposeful novel".--Horn Book.
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Boomerang Kids: How to Live with Adult Children Who Return Home
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Jason's Women
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Determined to change his wimp image, 16-year-old Jason turns to the personal ads in order to meet an experienced older woman, but winds up employed by an eccentric, elderly woman living with a young refugee girl. How will he possibly cope?
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Talent Night
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Rodney, an aspiring Japanese American rap musician, learns about his heritage and the importance of being oneself after trying to impress a rich uncle and a beautiful classmate.
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A Place for Grace
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Jean Davies Okimoto, Doug Keith (Illustrator)
With the help of a hearing-impaired man, a little dog finally manages to graduate from a training school for hearing dogs.
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To Jaykae: Life Stinx
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Jean Davies Okimoto
No duh! Not only are Jason's parents divorced--his mother acts like he has the plague and his father thinks shouting is the ultimate motivational tool--but his best friend has moved to California. It gets worse: his father decides to remarry and it turns out his stepbrother is Mr. High School All-American. Jason finds solace in a chatroom when he ...
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Dear Ichiro
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Jean Davies Okimoto, Doug Keith (Illustrator)
When eight-year-old Henry and his friend Oliver are having a fight, Henry's Grampa Charlie takes him to a baseball game. Charlie, a World War II veteran, cheers on the Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki and Kazuhiro Sasaki, and his enthusiasm for the Japanese players paves the way for Henry and Oliver's reconciliation. Full-color illustrations.
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Take a Chance, Gramps
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Janie Higgens is heartbroken when her best friend, Alicia, moves away. How will she ever face her first week at junior high without Alicia to keep her company? Luckily, Janie begins to find comfort through caring for her grandfather, who is mourning the recent death of his wife. Will these two lonely relatives be able to bring happiness into one ...
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Blumpoe the Grumpoe Meets Arnold the Cat
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Jean Davies Okimoto, Howie Schneider (Illustrator)
A grumpy old man and a shy young cat form an unlikely friendship at a Minnesota inn which provides its guests with a cat for the night.
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Eclipse of Moonbeam Dawson
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Jean Davies Okimoto
Meeting girls and going to school and hanging out with friends shouldn't be that tough. But it is if you're fifteen and you're biracial and your name is Moonbeam and you live on a commune with your mother and a bunch of granola-munching, tie-dyed, tofu-eating, sandal-wearing hippies! All moonbeam wants is to be normal. but as Moonbeam is about to ...
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My Mother is Not Married to My Father
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Eleven-year-old Cynthia and her six-year-old sister try to adjust to their parents' separation and divorce.
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Who Did It Jenny Lake
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On vacation in Hawaii, Jennifer and Freddie, classmates and friends, take time out from having fun to investigate the murder of an elderly acquaintance.
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Winston of Churchill: One Bear's Battle Against Global Warming
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Jean Davies Okimoto, Jeremiah Trammell (Illustrator)
Churchill, Manitoba is the polar bear capitol of the world. Every winter, tourists flock to the tiny town to watch the bears hunt and frolic on the frozen waters of the Hudson Bay. This year, though, the tourists are in for a big surprise...Winston! A smart, fierce, brave bear, Winston of Churchill has noticed that their icy home is slowly melting ...
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Norman Schnurman, Average Person
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Jean Davies Okimoto
A sixth grader who doesn't like sports wishes he could find something to do that would make his dad, a former college football star, proud of him.
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It's Just Too Much
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When her mother remarries, 12-year-old Cynthia faces two major changes at the same time: stepbrothers and junior high school.
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Norman Schnurman Ave
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Blumpoe the Grumpoe Meets Arnold the Cat
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Boomerang Kids
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Jean Davies Okimoto, Phyllis Jackson Stegall
Twenty-two million children over age 18 currently share their parents' homes, and this book tells how it is possible to live peacefully. From sharing chores, to rent, to eliminating parent-child roles, the emphasis is on ways to help children succeed on their own.
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No Dear, Not Here: The Marbled Murrelets' Quest for a Nest in the Pacific Northwest
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Jean Davies Okimoto, Celeste Henriquez (Illustrator)
Educational and environmentally correct, this book conveys the need to protect our forests and endangered species, such as the murrelets. Ralph and Alice set out to find a place to build a nest and home together. They go from place to place, unable to settle for one reason or another, with one saying to the other "No, Dear, not here!" Full color.
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