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The author draws on her own experiences and those of other adoptees and of adoptive parents to detail the psychological and emotional life of adoptees and the search for their natural parents

Paperback:

9780472033287, titled "Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience" | 3 exp upd edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, January 6, 2009), cover price $20.95
9780060971328 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, January 1, 1988), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The author draws on her own experiences and those of other adoptees and of adoptive parents to detail the psychological and emotional life of adoptees and the search for their natural parents

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Product Description: Visit Betty Jean Lifton's website: www.bjlifton.com.A reissue of the classic 1975 memoir that Elie Wiesel called "deeply stirring . . . important and enriching."In this significant and lasting account, Betty Jean Lifton, acclaimed author of several books on the psychology of the adopted, tells her own story of growing up at a time when adoptees were still in the closet...read more

Hardcover:

9780070378247 | McGraw-Hill, November 1, 1975, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Told at seven that she was adopted and at thirty that her natural parents were still living, the author recounts her psychological, emotional, and actual search for her origins and her subsequent meeting and relationship with her natural mother

Paperback:

9781590512449 | Other Pr Llc, September 1, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Visit Betty Jean Lifton's website: www.
9780312187668 | Griffin, May 1, 1998, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Told at seven that she was adopted and at thirty that her natural parents were still living, the author recounts her psychological, emotional, and actual search for her origins and her subsequent meeting and relationshp with her natural mother
9780140044041 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1977, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Told at seven that she was adopted and at thirty that her natural parents were still living, the author recounts her psychological, emotional, and actual search for her origins and her subsequent meeting and relationship with her natural mother

Describes the children's advocate's efforts to protect Jewish and Catholic children in Warsaw and create progressive orphanages

Paperback:

9781581101843 | Amer Academy of Pediatrics, October 31, 2005, cover price $29.95
9780312155605 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, May 1, 1997), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Describes the children's advocate's efforts to protect Jewish and Catholic children in Warsaw and create progressive orphanages

Miscellaneous:

9781581103977 | Amer Academy of Pediatrics, February 1, 2006, cover price $23.95

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Examines the adopted child's lifelong struggle to formulate a sense of personal identity, tracing the stages of the healing journey and explaining why a search of biological roots represents a journey toward wholeness (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780465008117 | Basic Books, April 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Examines the adopted child's lifelong struggle to formulate a sense of personal identity, tracing the stages of the healing journey and explaining why a search of biological roots represents a journey toward wholeness

Paperback:

9780465036752, titled "Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness" | Reprint edition (Basic Books, May 5, 1995), cover price $18.95

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A parent tells an adopted child about coming to the family
By Betty Jean Lifton and Claire A. Nivola (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780679806295 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1994, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A parent tells an adopted child about coming to the family

Library:

9780679906292 | Random House Childrens Books, April 1, 1994, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A parent tells an adopted child about coming to the family

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Graphically shows in photographs and in interviews made in 1967 and 1984 the effects of the bombing on the city and its people

Paperback:

9780870119613 | Kodansha Amer Inc, August 1, 1990, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Graphically shows in photographs and in interviews made in 1967 and 1984 the effects of the bombing on the city and its people

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Based on his own writings as well as interviews conducted with the orphans he raised and teachers he trained, this biography captures the remarkable life and tragic death of the Polish-Jewish doctor who spent a lifetime helping children

Hardcover:

9780374181246 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1988, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Based on his own writings as well as interviews conducted with the orphans he raised and teachers he trained, this biography captures the remarkable life and tragic death of the Polish-Jewish doctor who spent a lifetime helping children

Paperback:

9780805209303, titled "The King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczak" | Random House Value Pub, August 1, 1989, cover price $14.95

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With the help of his friends, a kind straw scarecrow is able to prove he is scarier than Toho the Terrible.
By Betty Jean Lifton and Eiichi Mitsui (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780208022455 | Linnet Books, March 1, 1989, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: With the help of his friends, a kind scarecrow is able to prove he is scarier than Toho the Terrible

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A history assignment prompts Lori Elkins, an adopted sixteen-year-old girl, to investigate the identity of her natural parents

Hardcover:

9780394847832 | Random House Childrens Books, February 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A history assignment prompts Lori Elkins, an adopted sixteen-year-old girl, to investigate the identity of her natural parents

Paperback:

9780553254686 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, April 1, 1986), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: A history assignment prompts Lori Elkins, an adopted sixteen-year-old girl, to investigate the identity of her natural parents

Library:

9780394947839 | Random House Childrens Books, February 1, 1981, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: A history assignment prompts Lori Elkins, an adopted sixteen-year-old girl, to investigate the identity of her natural parents

A descendant of the Mayas, Shun becomes ill when his twin soul, a young jaguar, is released from the supernatural corral

School and Library:

9780689305269 | Atheneum, September 1, 1976, cover price $6.50 | About this edition: A descendant of the Mayas, Shun becomes ill when his twin soul, a young jaguar, is released from the supernatural corral

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Records the delightful friendship that develops between a young boy and a monster that is growing up in his closet

School and Library:

9780689300554 | Atheneum, October 1, 1972, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A little boy becomes friends with the little monster living in his closet.

Survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima are pictured and interviewed in this dramatic and compelling account of the holocaust which killed almost two hundred thousand people

Hardcover:

9780689205255 | Atheneum, June 1, 1970, cover price $6.29 | About this edition: Survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima are pictured and interviewed in this dramatic and compelling account of the holocaust which killed almost two hundred thousand people

One day a Japanese boy sees a strange one-legged creature fly over the mountain. All the villagers gather around it but no one knows what it is.

School and Library:

9780689300196 | Atheneum, June 1, 1968, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: One day a Japanese boy sees a strange one-legged creature fly over the mountain.

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School and Library:

9780689300394 | Atheneum, June 1, 1965, cover price $5.25

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