Recommended Reading

For Children:

Adoption is for Always, Linda W. Girard Beginnings: How Families Came to Be, Virginia Kroll Billy's New Home: For Foster Children Everywhere, Valerie Busic Happy Adoption Day!, John McCutcheon How It Feels to be Adopted, Jill Krementz I Dreamed of You, Anna Zaltz Janey Is Adopted, Heather Teteak-Berg Little Miss Spider, David Kirk Lucy's Feet, Stephanie Stein On the Day You Were Born, Debra Frazier Teenagers Talk About Adoption, Marion Crook Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, Jamie L. Curtis The Day We Met You, Phoebe Koehler The Mulberry Bird: The Story of an Adoption, Ann B. Brodzinsky Through Moon & Stars and Night Skies, Ann Turner Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Parents Knew, Sherrie Eldridge We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo, Linda W. Girard Where the Sun kisses the Sea, Susan L. Gabel William is My Brother, Jane Schnitter

Professionals and Parents:

Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child, Rita Laws, L. Anne Babb Adopting the Hurt Child, Regina M. Kupecky, LSW, Gregory C. Keck, PhD Adopting the Older Child, Claudia Jarratt Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America, Adam Pertman Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents, Deborah D. Gray Behind the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens, Debbie Riley, M.S., John Meeks, M.D. Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self, Marshal Schechter, David Brodzinsky<, Robin Marantz Henig Clinical and Practice Issues in Adoption, Karen F. Rosenberg, Victor Groza Facilitating Development Attachment: Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and , Daniel A. Hughes Finding Fish, Antwone Fisher Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss, Claudia Jarratt Holding Time, Martha Welch How it Feels to be Adopted, Jill Krementz Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness, Betty Jean Lifton, Ph.D. Making Sense of Adoption, Lois Ruskai Melina Parenting Adopted Adolescents, Gregory C. Keck, PhD Parenting the Hurt Child, Regina M. Kupecky, LSW, Gregory C. Keck, PhD Parenting with Love & Logic, Jim Fay, Foster Cline Perspectives on a Grafted Tree, Patricia Irwin Johnson Questions Adoptees Are Asking, Sherrie Eldridge Raising Adopted Children, Lois Ruskai Melina Real Parents, Real Children, Holly Van Gluden, Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb Searching for a Past, Jayne Schooler Shared Fate: A Theory and method of Adoptive Relationships, H. David Kirk Siblings are Family, Too, Regina M. Kupecky, LSW Small Feats: Unsung Accomplishments and Everyday Heroics of Foster and Adoptive Parents, Richard J. Delaney Strong at the Broken Places, Linda T. Sanford Talking with Young Children About Adoption, Susan Fisher, M.D., Mary Watkins, Ph.D. Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child, Betsy Keefer The Adoption Life Cycle, Elinor B. Rosenberg The Broken Cord, Michael Dorris The Family of Adoption, Joyce Magwire Pavao The Healing Power of the Family, Richard J. Delaney The Impact of Attachment, Susan Hart The Psychology of Adoption, David Brodzinsky, Marshal Schechter The Road to Evergreen: Adoption, Attachment Therapy, and the Promise of Family, Rachael Stryker The Search: A Memoir of an Adopted Woman, Titia Ellis The Whole Life Adoption Book, Jayne Schooler Troubled Transplants, Richard J. Delaney Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Parents Knew, Sherrie Eldridge Understanding and Working with Parents of Children in Long-Term Foster Care, Emma Ward, Gillian Schofield Wounded Children, Healing Homes, Timothy J. Callahan, Jayne Schooler<, Betsy Keefer-Smalley