Todd parr adoption book6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Jeremiah, even after a heart transplant, stays positive and is determined to help as many people as he can feel happy. This book delivers a quiet and powerful story. ![]() However, he unexpectedly gets an opportunity to become involved with the local baseball team when he and his adoptive father move to Hillcrest, Ohio, a baseball-obsessed town whose high school and middle school teams have been destroyed by scandal. More recently, a heart transplant has left him frail. Soar by Joan Bauer (ages 10-12) – Twelve-year-old Jeremiah Lopper was abandoned as an infant, then caught a virus that weakened his heart. This beautifully illustrated book is based on the true story of a baby hippo orphaned by the tsunami of 2004. He plays with him, snuggles with him, and decides he just might turn out to be his best friend and a brand-new mama. But after the rain stops, Owen befriends Mzee, a 130-year old giant tortoise. That was all before the tsunami came and washed Owen’s world away. They loved to play hide-and-seek on the banks of the Sabaki River in Africa. ![]() A Mama for Owen by Marion Dane Bauer (ages 2-8) – Owen the baby hippo and his mama were best friends. ![]()
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