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Adoption Books
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All You Can Ever Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 257 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.85 — 26,517 ratings — published 2018
The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.44 — 6,100 ratings — published 2007
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.40 — 729,942 ratings — published 2017
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.20 — 464,981 ratings — published 2013
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,814 ratings — published 1993
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,612 ratings — published 1999
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,317,541 ratings — published 2017
Far from the Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 49,448 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 157 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,254 ratings — published 2006
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,296 ratings — published 1996
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,204 ratings — published 2009
A Mother for Choco (Paperstar)
by (shelved 121 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,043 ratings — published 1992
Secret Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.00 — 77,773 ratings — published 2010
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.04 — 360,564 ratings — published 2014
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.16 — 733 ratings — published 2002
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,117,644 ratings — published 1908
Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,240 ratings — published 2014
Counting by 7s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.14 — 87,647 ratings — published 2013
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.09 — 233,200 ratings — published 2011
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 90 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.29 — 127,003 ratings — published 2017
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.95 — 286 ratings — published 2000
Instant Mom (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,792 ratings — published 2013
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.59 — 23,568 ratings — published 2006
A Long Way Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,253 ratings — published 2013
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,832 ratings — published 2017
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.82 — 501 ratings — published 1997
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,109 ratings — published 2021
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 208 ratings — published 2006
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,529 ratings — published 2011
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (Anchor Book)
by (shelved 72 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.95 — 320 ratings — published 1992
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,231 ratings — published 2023
My New Mom & Me (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.25 — 713 ratings — published 2016
We Belong Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 560 ratings — published 2007
Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 633 ratings — published 2002
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,414 ratings — published 2006
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,553 ratings — published 2008
The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,458 ratings — published 2000
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,152 ratings — published 2013
Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.72 — 347 ratings — published 1986
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Life of a Cactus #1)
by (shelved 61 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.28 — 37,405 ratings — published 2017
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.01 — 175,319 ratings — published 1988
Lucky Girl: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,288 ratings — published 2009
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.01 — 46,716 ratings — published 2011
Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.18 — 352 ratings — published 1997
Where We Belong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.90 — 101,805 ratings — published 2004
Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.87 — 335 ratings — published 1997
Wolfie the Bunny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,759 ratings — published 2015
I Love You Like Crazy Cakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.15 — 704 ratings — published 2000
Before and After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,474 ratings — published 2019
Look Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.90 — 51,321 ratings — published 2009
“Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.”
― Handle with Care
― Handle with Care
“I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views "should" be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences.”
― Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
― Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
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