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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Silence has always marked Lorna's family. Her father was deaf. Her mother, Marika, helped rescue children as a teenage member of the Dutch Resistance, yet later abandoned her own young son and daughter. No explanation was ever offered. Nor why she resurfaced decades afterward to invite Lorna--by then a married social worker with a baby--to visit her remote cottage on Lake Champlain. For the past eighteen years, Lorna has struggled to make taciturn,...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Luna lives with her two grown-ups in a small home next to a river. She has "two pets, two pillows on her bed, and two languages in her head." Luna also has two grandmothers: Nana and Abuela. They are her two favorite people, and they are very different from each other. When her grown-ups are away, Nana and Abuela visit for a "date night" with Luna. Together they plan a delicious meal: pizza with olives. But when Luna adds something to the menu, she...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A Harvard faculty member and oral language specialist provides adults with evidence-based tools and techniques to help them have productive and meaningful conversations with children of all ages.
Science has shown that the best way to help our kids become independent, kind, and happy is by talking to them-- yet we are at a loss on how to have meaningful conversations. Rolland reveals that a great conversation has a double benefit: helping adults...
Author
Publisher
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
This guide to openness, communication, and truthfulness in adopter-adoptee relationships is designed to meet the practical and informational needs of adoptive parents, foster parents, adoption professionals, mental health professionals, and school teachers and counselors who have adopted or foster children.
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