Adoption

Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents, and, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from the biological parent or parents. Unlike guardianship or other systems designed for the care of the young, adoption is intended to effect a permanent change in status and as such requires societal recognition, either through legal or religious sanction. ...more

Michael Without Apology
The Fourth Daughter
My Other Heart
Looking for Jane
Sisters in the Wind
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Appalachian Song
Through Each Tomorrow (Timeless, #6)
The Boy from the Sea
Crazy Love  (The Single Dad Playbook #5)
Love Forms
Rabbit Moon
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson
The Original Daughter
August Blue
All You Can Ever Know
The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family
Before We Were Yours
Orphan Train
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Little Fires Everywhere
Far from the Tree
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches
A Mother for Choco (Paperstar)
Secret Daughter
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
Braided Love by Jo Elizabeth PintoAdoption Is a Lifelong Journey by Kelly DiBenedettoDelly Duck by Holly MarlowI Don't Have Your Eyes by Carrie A. KitzePablo's Tree by Pat Mora
Adoption Books for Kiddos
41 books — 34 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëHeidi by Johanna Spyri
Best Fiction about Adoption
327 books — 221 voters

Uprooted by Peter J. BoniDelly Duck by Holly MarlowVoices Unheard by Lisa Coppola LMHCAdoption Is a Lifelong Journey by Kelly DiBenedettoAdopting a Little Brother or Sister by Holly Marlow
Adoption Books
20 books — 49 voters
Uprooted by Peter J. BoniWhen Love Is Not Enough by Nancy L. ThomasStand Alone by P.D. WorkmanDetachment by Maurice MierauSearched the World Over for Elie by Sherilyn Olsen
Attachment Disorder
14 books — 36 voters

Someone Like You by Sarah DessenBoys Don't Cry by Malorie BlackmanAfter by Amy EfawCrank by Ellen HopkinsJumping Off Swings by Jo Knowles
Teen Pregnancy
360 books — 281 voters


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Orphanages are the only places that ever left me feeling empty and full at the same time.
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