Del Norte Public Library

Nick helps Dickens the kitten adjust to life in a new home.

The Peterson's new foster puppy is Patches. He's a cute beagle with long, floppy ears and a mournful howl. His owners leave him tied up all day and Charles tries to help.

When Sara Ann brings home three little kittens, Katie the dog enthusiasm frightens the kittens away, until she learns that a quiet patience is sometimes needed to begin a friendship.

A woman describes how she went to China to adopt a special baby girl. Based on the author's own experiences.

"Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil - human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whomever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time..." "Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, Norris Marshall,...

Describes babies and the things they do from the time they are born until their first birthday.

Describes the activities and changes involved in having a new baby in the house and the feelings experienced by the older brothers and sisters.

Eighteen-year-old Kristina is determined to manage her crystal meth addiction in order to take care of her newborn son, but when the pull of the drug becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.

In the land of the Ojibway a baby sleeps, protected from bad dreams, as the life of the tribe goes on around him.

A grandfather dreams of all the things he will do with his new grandchild.