Adoptee


All You Can Ever Know
When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology – An Emotion-Filled Collection for Teens Exploring Growing Up Adopted
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
First Love Language
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child
Famous Adopted People
Hour of the Ox (Pitt Poetry Series)
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
The Heirs
How to Be Remy Cameron
The Correspondent
Adopting Grace
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
The Primal Wound by Nancy VerrierAll You Can Ever Know by Nicole ChungYou Don't Look Adopted by Anne HeffronThe Racism of People Who Love You by Samira MehtaAdoption Fantasies by Kimberly D. McKee
Adoptee Books
16 books — 1 voter

Adoption Is a Lifelong Journey by Kelly DiBenedettoWhen We Become Ours by Shannon GibneyVoices Unheard by Lisa Coppola LMHCDelly Duck by Holly MarlowThe Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier
Essential Adoption Reading
49 books — 33 voters


Jen Frederick
You’re Korean, Hara. Even though you grew up in America. Even though you speak English and not Korean. Even though you feel like you’re different when you open your mouth. You are Korean where it counts. Here.” He draws a finger across the blue veins in my wrist. “The same blood that flows in me flows in you. My ancestors are your ancestors. Where you were raised and who you were raised by doesn’t change that. If anything, your experience makes you all the more Korean because what is a Korean bu ...more
Jen Frederick, Heart and Seoul

DaShanne Stokes
Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected. ...more
DaShanne Stokes

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