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Adoption Books
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All You Can Ever Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 258 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.85 — 26,795 ratings — published 2018
The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.44 — 6,194 ratings — published 2007
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.40 — 748,501 ratings — published 2017
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.20 — 469,282 ratings — published 2013
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,866 ratings — published 1993
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,646 ratings — published 1999
Far from the Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 50,184 ratings — published 2017
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,338,906 ratings — published 2017
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,660 ratings — published 2006
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,308 ratings — published 1996
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,230 ratings — published 2009
Secret Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.00 — 78,263 ratings — published 2010
A Mother for Choco (Paperstar)
by (shelved 120 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,062 ratings — published 1992
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.04 — 370,672 ratings — published 2014
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.16 — 735 ratings — published 2002
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,141,400 ratings — published 1908
Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,014 ratings — published 2014
Counting by 7s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.14 — 88,805 ratings — published 2013
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.10 — 235,630 ratings — published 2011
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 91 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.29 — 131,621 ratings — published 2017
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.95 — 289 ratings — published 2000
Instant Mom (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,805 ratings — published 2013
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.59 — 23,809 ratings — published 2006
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,436 ratings — published 2017
A Long Way Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 69,125 ratings — published 2013
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.82 — 501 ratings — published 1997
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,322 ratings — published 2023
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 210 ratings — published 2006
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,156 ratings — published 2021
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,534 ratings — published 2011
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (Anchor Book)
by (shelved 73 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.95 — 323 ratings — published 1992
My New Mom & Me (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.25 — 712 ratings — published 2016
We Belong Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 563 ratings — published 2007
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,776 ratings — published 2008
Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 635 ratings — published 2002
The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,466 ratings — published 2000
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,419 ratings — published 2006
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,160 ratings — published 2013
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Life of a Cactus #1)
by (shelved 63 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.28 — 38,769 ratings — published 2017
Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.73 — 353 ratings — published 1986
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.02 — 179,046 ratings — published 1988
Lucky Girl: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,296 ratings — published 2009
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,800 ratings — published 2011
Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.18 — 354 ratings — published 1997
Wolfie the Bunny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,780 ratings — published 2015
Where We Belong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.90 — 102,433 ratings — published 2004
Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.87 — 335 ratings — published 1997
Family Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.96 — 25,599 ratings — published 2024
I Love You Like Crazy Cakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.15 — 707 ratings — published 2000
Family Search: Romances in Which Hero or Heroine is Searching for Family Due to Adoption, Abduction, or Question of Identity
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“There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?”
― The Magician's Elephant
― The Magician's Elephant
“Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend the next eighteen years with. You care about looks, because you desperately want to fall in love with the stranger who will be your child.”
― Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother
― Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother
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