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Chester Keene Cracks the Code by Kekla Magoon Grades 3-7 Chester Keene’s mom is always worrying about him, so Chester tries his best to hide bad things from her. When a bully gives him a black eye, Chester tells his mom he ran into something. Chester really needs someone to talk to. His father left when Chester was a baby, but presents arrive every birthday and Christmas. When Chester finds an email address in one of the packages, he is read more
Becoming Vanessa by Vanessa Brantley-Newton Ages 3-6 During a month that we focus on the significance of names for transracial adoptees, Becoming Vanessa, by Vanessa Brantley-Newton feels like a relevant recommendation. Vanessa wants to feel special on her first day of school, but everything goes wrong. The outfit she picked is too fancy, and her name has too many letters. She shares her sad feelings with her parents, who help her discover how special her name is – and how read more
By April Dinwoodie Names carry weight. They are an introduction, an inheritance, a declaration of who we are—and sometimes, who others hope we’ll become. How Our Understanding of Names in Adoption Has Grown For those of us connected to adoption, names often sit at the intersection of identity, relationship, and lived experience. And like so much else in adoption, the way we think about names has changed over time. In the 1970s, during the height of the closed adoption era, read more