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Foster Parents Books
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The Boy on the Porch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,163 ratings — published 2013
Reason to Believe (Legacy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,017 ratings — published 2022
Counting by 7s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.14 — 87,649 ratings — published 2013
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.35 — 283,611 ratings — published 2014
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.40 — 729,979 ratings — published 2017
Just Like a Mama (Denene Millner Books)
by (shelved 2 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.30 — 446 ratings — published 2020
Another Place at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,644 ratings — published 2003
Strays Like Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,237 ratings — published 2018
Wish Me Home (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,812 ratings — published 2017
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,890,060 ratings — published 2005
Emily and Jackson Hiding Out (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 3.66 — 98 ratings — published 2012
Twelve Days (The McRaes #1)
by (shelved 2 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,646 ratings — published 2000
The Language of Hoofbeats (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,299 ratings — published 2014
Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,556 ratings — published 2014
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.09 — 233,204 ratings — published 2011
Legacy (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.44 — 42,192 ratings — published 2019
Boom Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 3.48 — 2,144 ratings — published 2025
Hooked on Loving Him (Baxter County Blues Book 2)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.54 — 677 ratings — published
Nightfall (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.52 — 50,169 ratings — published 2017
Before and After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,474 ratings — published 2019
The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.27 — 59,587 ratings — published 2011
Until Every Child Is Home: Why the Church Can and Must Care for Orphans (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.29 — 109 ratings — published 2019
The Witching Wind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.28 — 547 ratings — published 2024
The ABCs of Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.83 — 6 ratings — published
A Heart Like Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,336 ratings — published
100 Days of Sunlight (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,353 ratings — published 2019
Ashes of Xy: Blood of Xy, Book 1 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.34 — 76 ratings — published
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,052 ratings — published 2009
Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.37 — 196 ratings — published 2023
Tell Me My Story: Why Do You Live With Your Grandparents? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Confessions of an Adoptive Parent: Hope and Help from the Trenches of Foster Care and Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 3.64 — 362 ratings — published 2018
Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children With Severe Behaviors, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.19 — 984 ratings — published 2006
Replanted: Faith-Based Support for Adoptive and Foster Families (Spirituality and Mental Health)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.38 — 68 ratings — published
Delivered: My Harrowing Journey as a Birthmother (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.48 — 21 ratings — published 2012
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 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,254 ratings — published 2006
The ABCs of Foster & Kinship Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Orphan, the Widow & Me: Paying It Forward with Both Hands (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.53 — 49 ratings — published
The Sixteenth Year: An Open Adoption Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.44 — 39 ratings — published
No Matter Where I Go: God’s Love for Kids in Foster Care (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published
SIMPLY NEGLECT: Redemption beyond poverty and foster care (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.66 — 65 ratings — published
Until There’s More Than Enough: Working Together to Transform Foster Care Where You Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.20 — 25 ratings — published
Stranger Care (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,662 ratings — published 2021
The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment (Ebook epub)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.42 — 19 ratings — published
It Takes More Than Love: A Christian Guide to Navigating the Complexities of Cross-Cultural Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.56 — 194 ratings — published
Caring for Kids from Hard Places: How to Help Children and Teens with a Traumatic Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.11 — 134 ratings — published
The Waiting (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.33 — 18 ratings — published
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Life of a Cactus #1)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.28 — 37,410 ratings — published 2017
Tell Me My Story: How Does Adoption Impact Siblings? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.15 — 35,282 ratings — published 2018
Wish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as foster-parents)
avg rating 4.32 — 22,394 ratings — published 2016
“They were no better than common thieves. They stole our childhood. But even with that, I was heartbroken that I would not know the Wozniaks anymore, the only people who came close to being parents to me. I would be conscious of their absence for the rest of my life. I needed them. You know, if you think about it, we all need each other. But even with all of the evidence against the Wozniaks, I had conflicted emotions about them, then and now. They were the closest I had to a real family and real parents.
But now I was bankrupt of any feelings at all towards them at all.
I felt then, and feel now, a great sense of loss. I felt as if I were burying them. when I never really had them to lose in the first place. Disillusioned is probably a better word. In fact the very definition of disillusionment is a sense of loss for something you never had. When you are disillusioned and disappointed enough times, you stop hoping. That’s what happens to many foster kids. We become loners, not because we enjoy the solitude, but because we let people into our lives and they disappoint us. So we close up and travel alone. Even in a crowd, we’re alone.
Because I survived, I was one of the lucky ones. Why is it so hard to articulate love, yet so easy to express disappointment?”
― No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
But now I was bankrupt of any feelings at all towards them at all.
I felt then, and feel now, a great sense of loss. I felt as if I were burying them. when I never really had them to lose in the first place. Disillusioned is probably a better word. In fact the very definition of disillusionment is a sense of loss for something you never had. When you are disillusioned and disappointed enough times, you stop hoping. That’s what happens to many foster kids. We become loners, not because we enjoy the solitude, but because we let people into our lives and they disappoint us. So we close up and travel alone. Even in a crowd, we’re alone.
Because I survived, I was one of the lucky ones. Why is it so hard to articulate love, yet so easy to express disappointment?”
― No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
