Adoption and fostering Books

A solitary figure stands stoop-shouldered at the entrance to a closed China Air terminal at JFK, and he feels a creeping vulnerability that is foreign to him at age fifty-three. Peering through the rain and fog at the ghostly glow of streetlights on...

A redemptive story of family, forgiveness, and the journey to self-acceptance. "Our adopted angel"-that's what Danielle's adoptive parents called her.  She grew up adored, doted on, unconditionally loved. It wasn't until she was in college...

At the height of the Korean War, with anti-American hostility at a fevered pitch, Jean Tren-Hwa Perkins' adoptive parents fled China, encouraging their daughter to serve her country and aid her people in whatever ways she could. Determined to fulfill...

The existence of love at first sight is doubtful  — until it happens to you.As a lifeguard and law student, Jeff Whitaker grasps life head-on after putting his dreams on hold due to a family crisis. But his legendary focus changes when a woman...

Eli and Ella the Little Elephants are sure to be useful resource for foster parents, children's homes, orphanages, case workers, grandparents, extended family, teachers, pastors, mentors, and anyone else that desires to help and encourage orphans or...

If you are thinking about fostering or adoption, this is a good book to start with. It doesn't offer beautiful pictures of waiting infants or angelic toddlers. Those, you can get from any agency. Instead, in fifty-two short chapters on different...

Navajoland... It's a place of beauty where flat deserts are interrupted with rugged rock formations and forested mountains. Its home to the Navajo, the largest nation of Native Americans in America. It also became home to Jim and Kay Baker in 1975 when...

Young and old readers alike are fascinated by stories of life in an orphanage. In a carefully researched book about orphans and half-orphans at the turn of the last century, Nancy Price Freedman weaves an eye-opening tale of institutional life, based on...

At least 30,000 Guatemalan children were adopted by American parents before the corrupt business of selling children was discontinued in 2007. Little is known of their history or traumatic early years. This is the story of a well-meaning adoptive...

IF I LOVE MY KID ENOUGH: THE REALITY OF RAISING AN ADOPTED CHILD is based on the true story of Bethany. Adopted in infancy, she showed the promise of the perfect child. But early on there were indications that hers might not be a "happily ever after...

When faced with the prospect of being a one-child family, and yet having a strong desire for more children, this Midwest family embarks on what would become the adventure of their lives. Through the eyes of a mom, this book is written for all of us who...

Not all love stories are steeped in romance. Searching for identity is the undercurrent to this story, which emphatically deals with intergenerational bonding, hope and coping mechanisms, while underscoring the power of faith in one's life. Readers will...

Tina had questions, questions that only her mother could answer.Why did you leave me?Will I ever see you again?What have I done wrong for you not to want me?Why did you let me get adopted?Families are complicated, and fragmented families difficult to...

Motherhood is hard enough, but add in ADHD, a pandemic, and a truckload of uncertainty, and you're gonna need a serious sense of humor! Grab a coffee and take a break with this uplifting book about stuck-at-home mothering.This humorous autobiography...

Abandoned at BirthOne bright summer afternoon on weekend errands with his mother, 10-year-old Ronald's faint suspicions that he is adopted are confirmed by his mother's careful, well-practiced announcement of the truth. As a child whose appearance...

The lessons in this workbook will improve reading comprehension for students, while changing attitudes and building character.Students will read the chapters in the nonfiction book, A Gifted Child in Foster Care: A Story of Resilience, individually or as...

Going through trials and storms? Having feelings of loneliness and despair? Single parent doing what it takes two to do?

"At its simplest, this is the story of an adoption. Simple stops there. How is this different? The 13-year old boy initiates the process himself None of the boy's living parents has ever met each other, and they do not share a common language. He comes...

The Simpsons of Rye Top, Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania is a historical book written by Elizabeth Simpson Bladen in 1905. The book chronicles the history of the Simpson family and their life in Rye Top, a small town located in Cumberland Valley,...

"The story of one woman's journey from poverty to privilege to persecution, and her determination to survive as history and circumstance evolved around her. Tren-Hwa ("Spring Flower") was born in a dirt-floored hut along the Yangtze River in Central...

In this explosive coming of age true story, the reader uncovers the foster care to prison pipeline firsthand. The story follows Daniel as he is abandoned, placed in a foster home, group home, and viciously abused therein. Unable to endure the pain,...

Building on the bones of a story buried in his old reporter's notebooks, Stan Jones has written a compelling tale of family, greed, betrayal and violence--a look at what can happen when good people don't ask the hard questions that was Jones'...

"This book is my adoption story, but it is much more than that. It is also the story of how I discovered what is important in life and how I learned to trust the universe."Journey to My Daughter is about becoming a mother. It details everything from...

Faith Nicole Bertrand's life was suddenly turned upside down! Faith never dreamed her effort to help a pregnant teenage girl she and her aunt found abandoned in an old broken-down shack in the Mojave Desert in Lancaster, California would turn out to...

Change your life.Discover the transformative power of resilience and self-discovery of Inner Wealth. This compelling memoir is a testament to the strength of the human spirit, chronicling Helen Harrison's journey from the depths of grief and...

Once Scott Roos embraced his wife Nancy's vision to adopt an older child in need, the couple embarked on a roller coaster ride of international adoption. While the process was challenging and downright discouraging at times, they persevered with strength...

Statistics show that over two million couples will experience some type of infertility issue when they try to become pregnant. However, when you are one of those two million, you feel completely alone and believe that no one can truly understand what...

 An adoptee's decades-long journey to uncover her secret family history-and her own storyWhen she was nine, Leeanne Swain found out she was adopted at birth. The news was earth-shattering. She was left feeling alone and isolated from her adopted...

You Will See is for anyone walking through a hard season, looking for answers and needing healing. In her book, Sarah tells her story of a mystery illness and how losing significant things in her life gave her the opportunity to see God as undeniably...

After reuniting with her mother after 49 years, Grace LaJoy toils with an array of thoughts and feeling. She reveals them all in Diary of Emotions: Thoughts and Feelings. Book 4 of 4 in the Finding Mother Series. Questions inspiring mental...

After a very emotional reunion, Grace LaJoy has two concerns to address with her long-lost mother. What are her concerns? Does she get the answers she needs from her mother? Find out in After the Reunion. Book 3 of 4 in the Finding Mother...

Grace LaJoy’s determination pays off when she finally finds her mother who abandoned her at age two. Discover the specific details about her intriguing journey in Finding Mother After Five Decades. Book 1 of 4 in the Finding Mother Series.Questions...

What happens when Grace LaJoy and her siblings come face-to-face with their estranged mother after 49 years?  How does she receive them? Find out in Reuniting with Mother. Book 2 of 4 in the Finding Mother Series.Questions inspiring mental...

Surrendered at birth in a closed adoption, Candi Byrne strives for decades to fit in to her adoptive "frankenfamily"-only to finally discover, after a series of unanticipated events, that her true home has been with her all along in this raw, often wry,...

Travel across the years in this compelling collage memoir composed of essays, vignettes, and an archive of letters and images. An infant girl's post-World War II abandonment at birth, and her closed adoption by a military couple one year later is the...

Life changes when we least expect it. Sometimes bad is not as bad as we expect and good is far better. That's what this journey story is about. It has everything to do with dreams and far-fetched ideas and stories. It is about finding unexpected life...

Two Peas In A Separated Pod is a true story. Take a journey with two women on the road to discoveries and realizations. Jeannie and Carole write about their lives growing up. Each is unaware of the other. Jeannie is raised in the Bronx, New York. She...

What Are You? The Unflolding Story of a 1943 Bi-ethnic Adoption is a riveting memoir about a bi-ethnic woman whose Irish/Catholic birthmother made arrangements for her to be privately adopted by a bi-ethnic married couple in 1943. The memoir details the...