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A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive
Author: Dave Pelzer
Adopted: The Ultimate Teen Guide
Author: Suzanne Slade
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids
Authors: Gregory C. Keck, PhD and Regina M. Kupecky, LSW
Adoption Answer Book: Your Compete Guide to a Successful Adoption
Author: Brette McWhorter Sember
Adoption Awareness in School Assignments: A Guide for Parents and Educators
Author: Christine Mitchell
Adoption is a Family Affair: What Relatives and Friends Must Know
Author: Patricia Irwin Johnston
A Family for Leanne
Author: Shelby Griffin-Timberlake
A Family For Sammy – This book has been designed to help explain the process of foster care to young children (Special Stories Publishing) (Special Stories Series) Author: Kate Gaynor
A Foster Mother’s Cry: There is Something Within Me
Author: Mary L Latimer
A Knock On The Door: Stories By Biological Parents Who Have Children In Foster Care
Publisher: Youth Communications
All About Adoption: How Families are Made
Author: Marc Nemiroff
Another Mother: Co-Parenting with the Foster Care System
Author: Sarah Gerstenzang
Another Place at the Table
Author: Kathy Harrison
An Unlit Path
Author: Deborah L Hannah
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents
Author: Deborah Gray
Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children
Author: Daniel A Hughes
Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love Based Approach to Helping Children with Severe Behaviors (Vols1-2)
Author: Heather T. Forbes, LCSW
Beyond the Foster Care System: The Future for Teens
Author: Betsy Krebs
Birth of an Adoptive, Foster or Stepmother: Beyond Biological Mothering Attachments
Author: Barbara Waterman
Birthmarks: Transracial Adoption in Contemporary America
Author: Sandra Patton
Blending in: Crisscrossing the Lines of Race, Religion, Family, and Adoption
Author: Barbara Ann Gowan
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Author: Michael Lewis
Borya and the Burps: An Eastern European Adoption Story
Author: Joan McNamara
Building a Home Within: Meeting the Emotional Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care
Author: Toni Vaughn Heineman (Editor), Diane Ehrensaft (Editor)
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children
Author: Daniel A. Hughes
Children in Foster Care
Author: James Barber
Children of the State
Author: Nicia Aiyetoro
Child’s Journey Through Placement
Author: Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D.
Creating Capacity for Attachment
Author: Arthur Becker-Weidman, PhD (editor), Deborah Shell, MA, LCMHC (editor)
Dare to Love: The Art of Merging Science and Love into Parenting Children with Difficult Behaviors
Author: Heather T. Forbes, LCSW
Families are Forever
Author: Craig Shemin/ Deb Capone
For When I’m Famous: A Teen Foster/Adoption Lifebook
Author: Beth O’Malley
Foster Care Odyssey: A Black Girl’s Story (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography) –
Author: Theresa Cameron
Foster Parenting: A Road Less Traveled – III,
Author: Howard Lee Coleman
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Author: Katherine Paterson
Guide to Foster Parenting: Everything But the Kids!
Author: Mary Ann Goodearle, MS
Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families
Author: Rafael A. Javier (ed.)
The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System
Available through: Youth Communication – Author: Al Desetta
Help Yourself for Teens: Real-Life Advice for Real-Life Challenges
Author: Dave Pelzer
Helping Children Cope With Separation And Loss
Author: Claudia L. Jewett-Jarratt
Hope’s Boy: A Memoir
Author: Andrew Bridge
How It Feels To Be Adopted
Author: Jill Krementz
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to The Blind Side and Beyond
Author: Micheal Oher with Don Yaeger
I Don’t Have Your Eyes
Author: Carrie Kitze
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell their Stories
Authors: Rita J Simon and Rhonda M Roorda
Inside Transracial Adoption
Author: Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall
Is Anyone in There? Adopting a Wounded Child
Author: Michael Trout
Kids Need to be Safe: A Book for Children in Foster Care
Author: Julie Nelson
Lifebooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child
Author: Beth O’Malley
The Lost Boy: A Foster Child’s Search for the Love of a Family
Author: Dave Pelzer
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
Author: Nina Bernstein
Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
Author: Neely Tucker
Loving Across the Color Line: A White Adoptive Mother Learns About Race
Author: Sharon E. Rush
Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care
Authors: Jennifer Wilgocki, Marcia Kahn Wright, and Alissa Imre Geis
Me May Mary
Author: Mary Cameron Kilgour
Miles to Go
Author: Laurel-Rain Snow
Mulberry Bird (for Children)
Author: Anne Braff Brodzinsky
Multiple Transitions: A Young Child’s Point of View on Foster Care and Adoption
Author: Michael Trout
My Foster Family: A Story for Children Entering Foster Care
Author: Jennifer Levine
Nurturing Adoptions : Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma
Author: Deborah D. Gray
One Small Boat: The Story of a Little Girl, Lost Then Found
Author: Kathy Harrison
On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System?
Author: Martha Shirk (Author), Stangler, Gary (Author), Jimmy Carter (Foreword by)
Orphans of the Living: Stories of America’s Children in Foster Care
Author: Jennifer Toth;
Parenting the Adopted Adolescents: Understanding and Appreciating their Journeys
Author: Gregory C. Keck, PhD
Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow
Author: Gregory C. Keck, Ph.D. and Regina M. Kupecky, L.S.W.
Parenting Other People’s Children: Understanding And Repairing Reactive Attachment Disorder
Author: John L. Stoller
The People Movers: The Shameful Story of the Foster Care System
Author: Pamela Martin-Makuk
Perspectives on a Grafted tree: Thoughts for Those Touched by Adoption
Compiled by: Patricia Irwin Johnston
Practical Tools for Foster Parents
Author: Lana Temple-Plotz
Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child
Author: Holly van Gulden and Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb
Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption
Author: Ralph James Savarese
Robbie’s Trail through Foster Care
Authors: Adam D Robe, Kim A Robe, and Nathalie Gavet
Sam’s Sister
Author: Juliet C. Bond
Siblings in Adoption and Foster Care: Traumatic Separations and Honored Connections
Author: Deborah N. Silverstein
Small Town, Big Miracle
Author: Bishop W.C. Martin with John Fornof
Somebody’s Someone
Author: Regina Louise
Success as a Foster Parent: Everything You Need to Know about Foster Care
Author: National Foster Parents Association, Arlene Matthews Uhl, Baldino, Msw
Talking with Children About Adoption
Author: Christine Mitchell
Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past
Authors: Betsy Keefer and Jayne E. Schooler
The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System: Youth Communication
Author: Al Desetta (Editor)
The Star: A Story to Help Young Children Understand Foster Care
Author: Cynthia Miller Lovell and Angie J. Przystas
There Is An Urgency
Author: Gregrhi Arawn Love
Things Happen for a Reason: Even Foster Care and Adoption
Author: Kimberly Snodgrass
Three Little Words: A Memoir
Author: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Transracial Adoption & Foster Care: Practice Issues for Professionals
Author: Joseph Crumbley
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker’s Story
Author: Marc Parent
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Author: Sherrie Eldridge
Wasted: The Plight of America’s Unwanted Children
Author: Patrick T. Murphy
The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir
Author: Victoria Rowell
You Ain’t Got No Easter Clothes: A Memoir
Author: Laura Love