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1) How We Do Family: From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned about Love and LGBTQ Parenthood
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As featured in People Trystan and Biff had been dating for just a year when the couple learned that Biff’s niece and nephew were about to be removed from their home by Child Protective Services. Immediately, Trystan and Biff took in one-year-old Hailey and three-year-old Lucas, becoming caregivers overnight to two tiny survivors of abuse and neglect. From this unexpected start, the young couple built a loving marriage and happy home—learning...
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Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for...
3) Out of Order
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One million American children become part of blended family every year. What happens to stepsiblings when the oldest child suddenly becomes the middle child, and the youngest even younger? Out of Order delivers four electric points of view from stepsiblings, ages nine to fifteen, in a super-unsettled, scrambled-up family. An unforgettable Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament, plus 120 hazardous bug snacks, equals humor, insight, and serious indigestion....
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A refreshingly honest and authentic description of a courageous and often lonely life journey. Theresa Miles is a technical writer by trade, but now offers a completely unabashed chronicle about fighting for her own truth amidst a world of hidden disparities.
From each carefully crafted chapter comes a host of windows, tools, and graceful insights into an experience for anyone who has felt lost or alone, giving a framework of self-acceptance, love,...
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Courtney has to go to the hospital today where she will see lots of people who work in the hospital and help people. The hospital isn't a scary place. It's just a normal day in the life of Courtney, her brother Michael and their two mums.
This is a book, which allows families with same-sex parents explore what may happen when they go to the hospital. It also lets children discover the diversity of families and opens up conversations on same-sex parenting...
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Through this little journey, our magical chair helps to teach us about understating self-worth, compassion, respect, love and kindness, and working together. Also, that one's own imagination and creativity as well as faith and love for one another can conquer anything.
What we all have in common ...
That we all came from somewhere.
And, that is, how it all began.
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ATTENTION: A warning for the ones who considers themselves "faithful readers": please, don't read this Christmas special without having read "NO ÚLTIMO VOLUME" before.
For the simple fact that small details will not be absorbed as expected, and also, for a better perspection of events, since this short story takes place after the "final chapter" and long before the "epilogue".
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Southern California, 2019. Eight-year-old African girl Daisy, adopted by a Caucasian gay couple David and Isiah, was feeling excited for her first presentation day at her local elementary school. However, her excitement and presentation were brutally dismissed when the class bully, Billy, and her other classmates shamed her for having a family dynamic that didn't exemplify the popular heteronormative model. She navigated through fighting the internal...
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This book was written as a valuable tool to assist the Blended Family in understanding how valuable they are in striving to build a sustainable, cooperative, and compassionate family unit. Dr. Duane and Michele Mangum open up about their real-life experiences in being a part of the Blended Family. They provide step-by-step recommendations to help those in this dynamic family system to achieve better communication, acceptance, and forgiveness of everyone...
11) I Am Me
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I Am Me is a children's book that touches on diversity and inclusion for all in a loving way for both children and adults. Addressing diversity and inclusion at a young age is essential to building strong relationships while encouraging love and acceptance in our hearts. It is okay to be who you are, no matter what you look like or where you are from. This book shows how we are all different, but also the same, in a delightful and colorful rhyming...
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Each family is unique. Sometimes families only have one parent, and that's OK. Many children in the United States live with one parent. Some families with one parent are surrounded by positive circumstances whereas others face difficulties such as a lack of childcare and poverty. This guidebook explores the joys, hardships, and complexities of life with a single parent. It touches upon different situations that might lead to a single-parent household....
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Matilda's Project is a bright, moving, and inspiring book about family diversity, as seen through the eyes of children. Matilda's Project began as a community theatre production in January 2012. It was written, directed, and performed by qualified teachers to educate and empower children. The production, although small scale, received sponsorship, excellent reviews and a reasonable amount of media attention. In the lead up to the production, much...
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A young girl describes what it is like to live with her grandma and grandpa. Domain specific vocabulary helps the reader to easily follow the narrative. Colorful photographs and a picture-word glossary are included. This nonfiction title is paired with the fiction title Grandma's Room.
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This thoughtful book helps young readers explore families with members who have special needs or challenges. It will encourage readers to consider both similarities and differences and to accept differences and challenges as being OK. They'll learn how to help and support friends whose families might have their own unique differences.
16) Blended Families
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Students explore and understand the meaning of family relationships. Great books from prompting value-oriented discussions on caring, sharing, and loving.
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Une petite fille qui s'appelle Robert? Eh oui! Son prénom, c'est un drle de cadeau que lui a laissé sa maman juste avant de mourir, et Robert le porte fièrement. Elle vit à la caserne o travaille son père pompier et, comme lui, elle rêve de combattre les incendies. Mais, c'est avant tout aux prétendantes de son papa que Robert s'attaque! La fillette a plus d'un tour dans son sac et gare à celles qui voudraient prendre la place de sa maman!...
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There are all sorts of families in the world. Some have a mom and a dad. Others have two dads or have two moms. This guidebook explores the joy of family in its varied forms, focusing on family life in homes with two moms. It examines key concepts such as teamwork, discussing feelings, family structure, and the many benefits of living with two moms under one roof.
19) Same-Sex Parents
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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The experience of having same-sex parents is highlighted in this age-appropriate book. Readers will be exposed to what it's like to live with either two moms or two dads, and readers who live with same-sex parents will enjoy seeing a relatable narrative about their family dynamic. This inside look at the loving families anchored by same-sex parents gives young readers the understanding needed to fight intolerant attitudes. This sensitive and important...
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ATENCIÓN: Para aquellos que se consideran "lectores fieles" una pequeña advertencia: por favor no lean este especial de Navidad sin haber leído antes el libro "En el último volumen".
Por el simple hecho de que los pequeños detalles no serán absorbidos como se esperaba, y también para una mejor percepción de los acontecimientos, ya que este pequeño relato ocurre después del "capítulo final" y mucho antes del "epílogo".
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