Carolyn's Story: A Book about an Adopted Girl (Meeting the Challenge) [Library Binding]

Perry Schwartz (Author, Photographer)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up | Series: Meeting the Challenge

A nine-year-old girl describes her life and her feelings about being adopted as a baby in Honduras. Includes information and resources about adoption.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 2-6?A warm-hearted but not prettified view of adoption. Carolyn, nine, narrates this attractive photo-essay about her life in Minneapolis as an adoptee from Honduras. Her brother is also from Honduras; when she was two, she went there with her parents to pick him up. Carolyn experiences the tension between wanting to be like everyone else and taking pride in being special. But mostly she thinks about ordinary kid things: sports, school, friends, pets. The clear, full-color photos show her engaged in common activities and with her family. However, in the glossary, open adoption is called open adoption; closed adoption is called traditional adoption. In some American cultures, native Hawaiian for instance, a form of open adoption is traditional. Linda Girard's We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo (Albert Whitman, 1989) is also a first-person account of a nine-year-old Korean boy with a Brazilian younger sister. It deals with similar issues, but a quite different situation, so both books are needed.?Nancy Schimmel, formerly at San Mateo County Library, CA
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

[SERIES LAST REVIEWED IN THIS ISSUE, under Greenberg, Keith Elliot. Gr. 5^-7.]

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Library Binding: 40 pages
• Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0822525801
• ISBN-13: 978-0822525806
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,592,831 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read for Those Considering Adoption, September 4, 2001

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This review is from: Carolyn's Story: A Book about an Adopted Girl (Meeting the Challenge) (Library Binding)

"Carolyn's Story" is a wonderful children's book and excellent resource book for anyone who has considered or experienced adoption. The book share's a young Honduran girl's very real world experiences, emotions and thoughts about being an integral part of an adoptive family. This book certainly gives a high sense of hope for adoption demonstrating that a family can mean many things and is not required to be "typical" to be great. The photos are sincere and very colorful.