titles about adoption and being adopted
Young Adult
Harley, Like a Person – Cat
Bauer
Whale Talk – Chris Crutcher
Don't Think Twice – Ruth
Pennebaker
Juvenile Fiction
Dillon Dillon – Kate Banks
Heaven – Angela Johnson
Megan's Birthday Tree: A Story about Open Adoption – Laurie Lears
Saffy's Angel – Hilary McKay
Horse Crazy Lily – Nancy N. Rue
What My Sister Remembered – Marilyn Sachs
Lucy's Family Tree – Karen Halvorsen Schreck
Riding the Waves – Theresa Tomlinson
Picture Books
A Family for Jamie – Suzanne Bloom
Jin Woo – Eve Bunting
My Family Is Forever – Nancy Carlson
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born – Jamie Lee Curtis
The Coffee Can Kid – Jan M. Czech
A New Barker In the House – Tomie dePaola
You're Not My Real Mother! – Molly Friedrich
Our Twitchy – Kes Gray
Pinky and Rex and the New Baby – James Howe
All Together Now – Anita Jeram
A Mother For Choco – Keiko Kasza
The Day We Met You – Phoebe Koehler
I Love You Like Crazy Cakes – Rose A. Lewis
Emma's Yucky Brother – Jean Little
A Koala for Katie: An Adoption Story – Jonathan London
Happy Adoption Day! – John McCutcheon
The White Swan Express – Jean Davies Okimoto & Elaine M. Aoki
Families Are Different – Nina Pellegrini
We Wanted You – Liz Rosenberg
Allison – Allen Say
William Is My Brother – Jane T. Schnitter
Waiting for May – Janet Morgan Stoeke
Nonfiction
How I Was Adopted: Samantha's Story – Joanna
Cole
How It Feels To Be Adopted – Jill Krementz
Tell Me A Real Adoption Story – Betty Jean Lifton
Did My First Mother Love Me? – Kathryn Ann Miller
Let's Talk About It: Adoption – Fred Rogers
Biography
We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo
– Linda Walvoord Girard
titles last updated July 11, 2008
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