Title: Adopted from Asia: How It Feels to Grow Up in America
Author: Frances M. Koh
Summary: Adoptees from Korea share
their experiences being raised by Caucasian parents and discuss
separation and loss, parental love and support, concerns about
birth parents, racial prejudice, friends and dating, ethnic
identity, and self-esteem.
Title: The Adoption Reader
Author: Susan Wadia-Ellis (editor)
Summary: A collection of narratives from birth mothers, adoptive mothers, and adopted daughters sharing experiences and challenges.
Title: Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye
Author: Lois Lowry
Summary: Just before entering college, a teenager adopted in infancy sets out to find her birth parents.
Title: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Author: Katherine Paterson
Summary: Gilly has been in the foster system all her life. She dreams of getting back to her mother, who is wonderful only in Gilly's imagination, and schemes to get away from her latest guardian.
Title: How It Feels to be Adopted
Author: Jill Krenentz
Summary: Boys and Girls between the ages of 8 - 16 share their thoughts about being adopted.
Title: In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
Author: Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda
Summary: Stories from young African-American and biracial adults who were adopted as children by Caucasian parents give first-hand accounts of how their experiences affect their current lifestyles.
Title: The Lost
Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America,
and the Search for a Missing Past
Author: Karin Evans
Summary: This book explores the emotional, political and cultural issues of many Chinese children, mostly girls, adopted by Americans.
Title: Lost in the system
Author: Charlotte Lopez with Susan Dworkin
Summary: The author, Miss Teen USA 1992, recounts her childhood in the public child welfare system, including stays in foster care and a group home.
Title: Penny Maybe
Author: Kathleen Martin
Summary: A story about a teenage girl in foster care.
Title: Perspectives on a Grafted Tree: Thoughts for Those Touched by Adoption
Author: Patricia Johnson
Summary: A collection of poetry by those and for those who have been touched by adoption.
Title: A Place to Call Home
Author: Jackie French Koller
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Anna tries to care for her 5 year-old sister and infant brother when their mother abandons them.
Title: Voices from Another Place
Author: Susan Soon-Keum Cox
Summary: Collection of thoughts, feelings, and experiences of a generation born in Korea and adopted to other countries.
Title: Whale Talk
Author: Chris Crutcher
Summary: The hero of this story is T. J. Jones who is biracial and adopted. The story combines a tale of athletic competition with themes of child maltreatment, racism, and justice.
Title: Where Are My Birth Parents? A Guide for Teenage Adoptees
Author: Karen Gravelle, Susan Fischer
Summary: This book focuses on
why adopted teenagers search for their birth parents, discusses
challenges of searching, and considers the possible benefits
and drawbacks.
