Adoption category: 683 books
Conversations with Bobby
From Foster Child to Corporate Executive
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2012
Business Leader Bob Danzig never forgot his childhood in foster care. In Conversations with Bobby, he reconnects with the foster child he was so many years ago. What follows is a deeply personal story, which reveals how the challenges Bob faced growing up shaped his career and ultimately, seeded his...
by Casey Watson
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Sunday Times bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson’s inspiring memoirs Mummy’s Little Helper and Little Prisoners combined in a single volume with her deeply moving latest title Breaking the Silence, about two troubled little boys who both desperately need a loving home, and find comfort...
To the End of June
The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A New York Times Notable Book that “casts a searing eye on the labyrinth that is the American foster care system” (NPR’s On Point).
Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster...
by Mei-Ling Hopgood
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The true story of an American woman’s unexpected reunion with her Chinese birth family: “A great book” (Good Housekeeping).
In 1974, a baby girl from Taiwan was brought to the United States, newly adopted by a loving couple in Michigan. Mei-Ling Hopgood had an all-American upbringing,...
You Can't Have My Daughter
A true story of a mother's desperate fight to save her daughter from Oxford's sex traffickers.
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
As a single 51-year-old woman, Elizabeth McDonnell had given up hope of ever becoming a mother. When she was approved to adopt ten-year-old Lara, a sweet and caring girl, it was a dream come true.
Elizabeth knew that that her new daughter had had a difficult past but when she found out that...
by Constance Lang
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2011
A book for parents who have adopted special needs children and who now find themselves faced with difficult behaviors and other challenges. This book offers fun creative suggestions on how to gain compliance and strategies for working with schools, finding a therapist, addressing safety issues and building support networks.
Understanding Attachment and Attachment Disorders
Theory, Evidence and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
This book offers a thorough examination and discussion of the evidence on attachment, its influence on development, and attachment disorders.
In Part One, the authors outline attachment theory, the influence of sensitive and insensitive caregiving and the applicability of attachment theory...
A Different Home
A New Foster Child's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A sensitive picture book to help ease the anxieties of foster children aged 4 to 10 entering placement.
In A Different Home, Jessie tells us her story of being placed in foster care. At first she is worried and has lots of questions. The new home is not like her old home -- she has a different...
by Susan Ito
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Susan Ito is a struggling college student, a young adult on the cusp of parental independence, when she meets her birth mother for the first time. Instead of launching into adulthood, she finds herself entangled in longing for this new kind of mother love where she sees her own self, mirrored in mysterious...
by Marianne Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
A Memoir of Loss, Struggle, and Unbreakable Hope
Author Marianne Curtis reveals her own personal, heart-wrenching, and, ultimately, inspiring story in Finding Gloria. Her past is laid bare in achingly honest detail, and her willingness to share her story with resonate with readers everywhere.
Pouring...
The Foster Parenting Manual
A Practical Guide to Creating a Loving, Safe and Stable Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The Foster Parenting Manual is a comprehensive guide offering proven, friendly advice for novice and experienced parents alike. Distilling many years' experience into one book, US foster and adoptive parent John DeGarmo combines his own hard-won wisdom with that of fellow foster parents. He describe...
A Cup of Comfort for Adoptive Families
Stories that celebrate a special gift of love
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
It takes a loving and caring couple to bring an adopted child into their home. And every year, thousands of couples make room in their homes—and their hearts—for these special children. This story collection celebrates the individuals and families who experience these feelings firsthand. From...
by Cathy Glass
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Fostering...
by Colby Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
This book presents a short and accessible introduction to what 'attachment' means and how to recognise attachment disorders in children. The author explains how complex problems in childhood may stem from the parent-child relationship during a child's early formative years, and later from the child's...