All Blog Posts Tagged 'adoption' (17)

This the story of  KC…the good little Diggy Dog who does naughty things. He used to live in a shelter and like all the Diggy Dogs, he dreamed of being adopted. Then one day, Mommy and Daddy came to the shelter and picked him out of all the other Diggy Dogs. He was so happy to be…

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A Tumbled Stone by Marcia Laycock is the sequel to her first novel One Smooth Stone. I loved the first book and was anxious to read the second installment. I wasn’t disappointed. A Tumbled Stone introduces Andrea, a fostered teenager who has struggled all her life to fit in while living on a farm in rural Saskatchewan. When she finds that she is pregnant, she decides to run away to the city. The book also follows the life of Alex Perrin (Donnelly), whose adventures and oftentimes traumatic… Continue

About Night of a Thousand Jeters:

Will immersion in sports help two adopted Cambodian boys with special needs navigate their way towards a beautiful American manhood?

Will the author―queer, white, far from rich―survive the difficulties, mistakes, stupidities, flaws, longings and pitfalls of…

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This is the true story of a courageous single woman’s quest to adopt two international children, despite what often seemed like insurmountable obstacles.  Lorilyn Roberts weaves a tale that is nothing short of inspiring. Heartfelt, beautifully written and engaging from cover to cover, this is a story of perseverance, tenacity, and immeasurable love on the part of a broken divorcee who follows her dream to become a mother. In the process she learns what it means to trust in God completely,…

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If you would like to discuss and teach your kids about 911 and the value of having compassion, then this book is for you.  Here is the link to purchase at Amazon:… Continue

Aleja Bennett was adopted in the early seventies after being abandoned and left in an apartment alone with her older siblings. The Author was only six months old and suffered with pnuemonia  shortly after that.

 

 Aleja Bennett was adopted at the age of two years by a woman who was barren. The couple abused, starved, tortured, rejected and…

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Aleja Bennett was born in East Elmhurst Queens New York by her unknown biological mother. In 1976 she was raised in East New York Brooklyn by her church attending adopted parents who still serves as a deacon and deaconess. From the age of two through nineteen they physically-verbally and mentally abused her. She was tortured, starved and neglected all through her childhood.



Alcohol became an escape for her while she associated with people-men that added to her abuse. At the age of… Continue

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I don't have room in my current library for more books, but I liked Unwind so much that it's on my wish list for when I do. Moreover, I have been recommending it to all my reader friends--and now am recommending it to you. Unwind is a fabulous read!

http://allisonsbookbag.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/unwind-by-neil-shusterman/

Can one live alone? Can wild things be tamed? If one always has an exit through which one can escape, is that trust? These are the ideas explored by Clay Carmichael in first young adult novel aptly named Wild Things.

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Children of Dreams – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat



‘Nepal is the forty-eighth poorest country in the world. Out of a

population of eighteen million, six million drink water we wouldn’t give

to our dogs… later I would find out what drinking contaminated water

could do to a seven-year-old child…. Nepal’s per capital income was only

$180 per year, one of the lowest in the world and the… Continue

The Daddy Book by Todd Parr



The books of Todd Parr (creator of the Discovery channel TV show Toddworld) feature fanciful and boldly colored line drawings that instantly appeal to children. The Daddy Book is filled with Parr's trademark images and lots of… Continue

Title: We Belong Together

Author: Todd Parr



Todd Parr lends his distinctive picture book style to adoption in his latest book. Every two or three pages, Parr writes “We belong together because …” and then fills in the blank in different heartfelt – and sometimes whimsical – ways. The… Continue