PreSchool-Grade 3-- Oliver wishes he had a totally different life after receiving a gentle reprimand from his adoptive father. Sent to his room, the young lizardlike creature is convinced that his birth parents would have cut him a much better deal. A little later his mother and father share their own childhood fantasies with him. Most children, explains his father, imagine the lives they could be having, especially when they are angry with their parents. Thus enlightened, Oliver decides to stay put. Whimsical black-and-white ink drawings somewhat temper the earnest message of this book. Oliver is not ``a story about adoption'' as the subtitle would have it; it would work just as well if the boy were a biological child. --Anna Biagioni Hart, Martha Washington Library, Alexandria, VA

Oliver, A Story About Adoption

Wickstrom, Lois J.

Parenting & Relationships

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Maia has a friend, but Fig can't see her.Fig says Maia is just pretending.Maia knows her friend Trezzie is real.Trezzie is a mermaid.

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Wickstrom, Lois

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Mermaid and the Rainbow (Mermaid Science)

Maia, Fig and Trezzie do science experiments with an empty glass. As a finale, Trezzie shows them how to make a rainbow.

The Mermaid and the Rainbow: Mermaid Science

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A fossil, a plastic fruit box, and a drop of water lead to a world of wonder.

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The Mermaid and the Ice Cube Necklace (Mermaid Science)

While she's dreaming, 12-year-old Gwendolyn becomes the animals she dreams about. A fire alarm awakens her while she's an elk. It's elk hunting season, and she doesn't know how to change back to a girl, or how to stay alive.

Dream-Shifter

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Oliver is stuck in his room. His father sent him there for playing in a tree that was too young to be climbed. Oh, if only he still lived with his birthparents! What could he do if he were with them? Be a scientist? Or a trapeze artist? Do other people wish for other parents when they are angry with their own? What should Oliver do? Updated with language for the 21st century.

Oliver, A Story About Adoption - Updated

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I'm writing a story about the Queen of the Fairies. She's a good fairy. But I'll also have to write about the bad fairies. They don't like being left out. If I leave them out, they'll play mean tricks on me. What if the bad fairies find out I'm writing this book, and they don't like what I write? They might steal this book. Then what will I do?

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