Books on Adoption and Foster Care
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Adoption Answer Book: Your Compete Guide to a Successful Adoption Brette McWhorter Sember
Adoption is a Family Affair: What Relatives and Friends Must Know Patricia Irwin Johnston
A Family for Leanne Shelby Griffin-Timberlake
Adopted: The Ultimate Teen Guide Suzanne Slade
Adoption Awareness in School Assignments: A Guide for Parents and Educators Christine Mitchell
All About Adoption: How Families are Made Marc Nemiroff
Another Mother: Co-Parenting with the Foster Care System Sarah Gerstenzang
Another Place at the Table – Kathy Harrison;
An Unlit Path – Deborah, L Hannah;
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents - Deborah Gray
Beyond the Foster Care System: The Future of Teens - Betsy Krebs
Blending in: Crisscrossing the Lines of Race, Religion, Family, and Adoption - Barbara Ann Gowan
Birth of an Adoptive, Foster or Stepmother: Beyond Biological Mothering Attachments – Barbara Waterman
The Blind Side: the Evolution of the Game – Michael Lewis
Borya and the Burps: An Eastern European Adoption Story - Joan McNamara
Building a Home Within: Meeting the Emotional Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care -Toni Vaughn Heineman (Editor), Diane Ehrensaft (Editor)
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children - Daniel A. Hughes
A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive - Dave Pelzer
Children in Foster Care - James Barber
Children of the State - Nicia Aiyetoro
Child’s Journey Through Placement - Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D.
Creating Capacity for Attachment - Arthur Becker-Weidman, PhD (editor), Deborah Shell, MA, LCMHC (editor)
Families are Forever - Craig Shemin/ Deb Capone
For When I’m Famous: A Teen Foster/Adoption Lifebook Beth O’Malley
Foster Care Odyssey: A Black Girl’s Story (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography) – Theresa Cameron
Foster Parenting: A Road Less Traveled – III, Howard Lee Coleman
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (for youth)
Guide to Foster Parenting: Everything But the Kids! Mary Ann Goodearle, MS
Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families Rafael A. Javier (ed.)
The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System: Youth Communication Al Desetta (Ed)
Helping Children Cope With Separation And Loss Claudia L. Jewett-Jarratt
Help Yourself for Teens: Real-Life Advice for Real-Life Challenges Dave Pelzer
Hope’s Boy: A Memoir – Andrew Bridge
How It Feels To Be Adopted Jill Krementz
I Don’t Have Your Eyes Carrie Kitze
Inside Transracial Adoption Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall
Is Anyone in There? Adopting a Wounded Child Michael Trout
Kids Need to be Safe: A Book for Children in Foster Care Julie Nelson
A Knock On The Door: Stories By Biological Parents Who Have Children In Foster Care by Youth Communications
Lifebooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child Beth O’Malley
The Lost Boy: A Foster Child’s Search for the Love of a Family by Dave Pelzer (Paperback – Aug 1, 1997)
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein
Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care by Jennifer Wilgocki, Marcia Kahn Wright, and Alissa Imre Geis
Me May Mary – Mary Cameron Kilgour
Miles to Go by Laurel-Rain Snow
Mulberry Bird (for Children) Anne Braff Brodzinsky
Multiple Transitions: A Young Child’s Point of View on Foster Care and Adoption Michael Trout
My Foster Family: A Story for Children Entering Foster Care by Jennifer Levine
Nurturing Adoptions : Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma Deborah D. Gray
One Child Torey Hayden
One Small Boat: The Story of a Little Girl, Lost Then Found – Kathy Harrison
On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System? Martha Shirk , Stangler, Gary, forward by Jimmy Carter
Orphans of the Living: Stories of America’s Children in Foster Care – Jennifer Toth;
Parenting Other People’s Children: Understanding And Repairing Reactive Attachment Disorder – John L. Stoller;
Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow Gregory C. Keck, Ph.D. and Regina M. Kupecky, L.S.W.
The People Movers: The Shameful Story of the Foster Care System Pamela Martin-Makuk
Practical Tools for Foster Parents Lana Temple-Plotz
Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child Holly van Gulden and Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb
Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption Ralph James Savarese
Robbie’s Trail through Foster Care by Adam D Robe, Kim A Robe, and Nathalie Gavet
Sam’s Sister Juliet C. Bond
Siblings in Adoption and Foster Care: Traumatic Separations and Honored Connections – Deborah N. Silverstein
Small Town, Big Miracle Bishop W.C. Martin
Somebody’s Someone – Regina Louise
The Star: A Story to Help Young Children Understand Foster Care by Cynthia Miller Lovell and Angie J. Przystas
Success as a Foster Parent: Everything You Need to Know about Foster Care National Foster Parents Association, Arlene Matthews Uhl, Baldino, MSW
Talking with Children About Adoption Christine Mitchell
There Is An Urgency – Gregrhi Arawn Love
They Cage the Animals At Night Jennings Michael Burch
Things Happen for a Reason: Even Foster Care and Adoption by Kimberly Snodgrass
Three Little Words: A Memoir Ashley Rhodes-Courter
The Tiger’s Child Torey Hayden
Transracial Adoption & Foster Care: Practice Issues for Professionals Joseph Crumbley
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker’s Story- Marc Parent
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew – Sherrie Eldridge
Wasted: The Plight of America’s Unwanted Children – Patrick T. Murphy
The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir – Victoria Rowell
You Ain’t Got No Easter Clothes: A Memoir – Laura Love
Zachary’s New Home: A Story for Foster and Adopted Children Geraldine Blomquist, Paul Blomquist