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Note: All call numbers are for the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana

CALL #	AUTHOR	TITLE	DATE
J306.874 SCHUE	Schuette, Sarah L.	Adoptive Families "Simple text and photographs present adoptive families, including how family members interact with one another"--Provided by publisher.	2010
J362.73	Boyd, Brian	When You Were Born in Korea Boyd creates a memory book for children adopted from Korea.	1993
J362.73	Dorow, Sara	When You Were Born in China Dorow creates a memory book for adopted Chinese children.	1997
J362.73	Petertyl, Mary E.	Seeds of Love: For Brothers and Sisters of International Adoption Carly works through feelings of anticipation and fear when her parents travel to another country without her to adopt her baby sister.	1997
J362.734 ROTNE	Rotner, Shelley	I'm Adopted! With a perceptive text and dynamic photographs, the creators of this book demystify adoption for young children and celebrate the joy that comes with adding to a family.	2011
J362.734	D'Antonio, Nancy	Our Baby from China: An Adoption Story An American couple goes to China to adopt a baby.	1997
J362.734 MCMAH	McMahon, Patricia	Just Add One Chinese Sister Claire’s adoptive mother tells the story of her adoption from China into a family with a brother, Conor.	2005
J362.734 NEMIR	Nemiroff, Marc A.	All About Adoption: How Families Are Made & How Kids Feel About It Using simple language, describes the stages of the adoption process and discusses complex feelings commonly felt by adopted children.	2004
J362.734 OMALL, 2003	O'Malley, Beth	LifeBooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child O'Malley guides parents through a step by step, page by page process to make a lifebook for an adopted child.	2003
J362.734 PARR	Parr, Todd	We Belong Together: A Book about Adoption and Families	2007
J362.734	Rogers, Fred	Adoption (Let’s Talk About It series) Rogers discusses what it means to be part of a family and examines some feelings that adopted children may have.	1994
JE AUBRE	Aubrey, Annette	Flora's Family Rhyming text explains the issue of adoption.	2007
JE BERGR	Bergren, Lisa	God Found Us You When Little Fox asks his mother to tell his favorite story, Mama Fox recounts the day he arrived in her life, from God to her arms.	2009
JE	Blomquist, Geraldine M.	Zachary's New Home: A Story for Foster and Adopted Children Zachary still remembers his "real" parents and finds that adjusting to life as Marie and Tom's adopted son is sometimes a painful reality.	1990
JE	Bloom, Suzanne	A Family for Jamie: An Adoption Story Although Dan and Molly can make cookies and birdhouses, they cannot make a baby, so they adopt Jamie and share with him their life and love.	1991
JE BOND	Bond, Juliet C.	Sam's Sister Five-year-old Rosa becomes a big sister to a baby boy for whom their mother plans an open adoption because she cannot properly care for another child.	2004
JE	Bunting, Eve	Jin Woo Davey is dubious about having a new adopted brother from Korea, but when he finds out that his parents still love him, he decides that having a baby brother will be fine.	2001
JE	Carlson, Nancy	My Family Is Forever A young girl recounts how she came to be part of an adoptive family.	2004
JE	Caseley, Judith	Sisters When Melissa's parents adopt Kika from another country, the two girls learn about being sisters.	2004
JE CLARK	Clark, Karen Henry	Sweet Moon Baby: An Adoption Tale The smiling moon watches over a baby girl in China whose parents love her but cannot take care of her, and guides a childless couple that lives far away to the daughter for whom they yearn.	2010
JE	Cole, Joanna	How I Was Adopted: Samantha's Story A young girl tells the story of how she came to be her parents' child through adoption.	1995
JE COSTE	Coste, Marion	Finding Joy Shu-li, an infant girl who had to be sent away by her family in China, is adopted by an American family and renamed Joy.	2006
JE	Curtis, Jamie Lee	Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born A young girl asks her parents to tell her again the cherished family story of her birth and adoption.	1996
JE FRIED	Friedman, Darlene	Star of the Week: A Story of Love, Adoption, and Brownies with Sprinkles As her turn to be "Star of the Week" in her kindergarten class approaches, Cassidy-Li puts together a poster with pictures of her family, friends, and pets, and wonders about her birthparents in China.	2009
JE FRIED	Friedrich, Molly	You're Not My Real Mother! After an adoptive mother tells her daughter all the reasons that she is her "real mother", the young girl realizes that her mother is right, even though they do not look alike.	2004
JE HEATH	Heath, Kathy	Logan's Journey A young boy relates the story of how he was adopted as told to him by his parents.	2007
JE HEO	Heo, Yumi	Ten Days and Nine Nights A little girl and her family prepare for the new baby that will soon be joining them from Korea.	2009
JE HODGE	Hodge, Deborah	Emma's Story Thousands of baby girls from China have been adopted by North American families. This is the story of one such little girl and the many ways we form a family.	2003
JE	Höjer, Dan & Lotta	Heart of Mine: A Story of Adoption A mommy and daddy embark on a journey to bring home Tu Thi, a little girl born in a land far away.	2001
JE	Kasza, Keiko	A Mother for Choco A lonely little bird named Choco goes in search of a mother.	1992
JE	Katz, Karen	Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale A loving couple dream of a baby born far away and know that this is the baby they have been waiting to adopt.	1997
JE	Keller, Holly	Horace Horace, an adopted child, realizes that being part of a family depends on how you feel and not how you look.	1991
JE KENNE	Kennedy, Pamela	A Sister for Matthew When Matthew's parents decide to adopt a baby girl from China he has many questions, but by the time she arrives, he is excited about his new sister.	2005
JE KITZE	Kitze, Carrie	I Don't Have Your Eyes A gentle multicultural exploration of how people are alike despite differences in appearance, background or ethnicity.	2003
JE KRISH	Krishnaswami, Uma	Bringing Asha Home Eight-year-old Arun waits impatiently while international adoption paperwork is completed so that he can meet his new baby sister from India.	2006
JE LAYNE	Layne, Steven L.	Over Land and Sea Two parents describe their journey over land and sea to find the child that belongs in their family, as well as all of the joy and love the new baby brings.	2005
JE LEARS	Lears, Laurie	Megan's Birthday Tree: A Story about Open Adoption Every year on Megan's birthday, her birth mother, Kendra, sends a picture of the tree she planted the day Megan was born, so when Kendra decides to get married and move to a new house, Megan worries that she will be forgotten.	2005
JE LEMAN	Leman, Kevin	My Adopted Child, There's No One Like You When Panda has to make a family tree for school, his mother explains how he came to be adopted, and how very special that makes him.	2007
JE	Lewis, Rose A.	I Love You Like Crazy Cakes A woman describes how she went to China to adopt a special baby girl. Based on the author's own experiences.	2000
JE LIN	Lin, Grace	The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale A sad king and queen find joy and happiness after a mysterious red thread leads them to a baby waiting to be adopted.	2007
JE LOPEZ	Lopez, Susana	The Best Family in the World Carlotta anxiously awaits the arrival of her new family. What will they be like? She imagines all kinds of wonderful families...astronauts, pastry chefs, even pirates. How nice to find out that they are the best family in the world.	2010
JE MCDON	McDonnell, Christine	Goyangi Means Cat An understanding cat helps a young Korean girl adjust to her new home in America.	2011
JE MCNAM	McNamara, Joan	Borya and the Burps: An Eastern European Adoption Story When baby Borya is adopted by a kind Mamma-and-Papa, he leaves his Eastern European orphanage, taking nothing familiar with him except his talent for burping.	2005
JE	Miller, Kathryn	Did My First Mother Love Me?: A Story for an Adopted Child Morgan’s adoptive mother reassures her that she is loved by reading a letter written by her birthmother. (Includes a section: "Talking with your child about adoption").	1994
JE NEWMAN	Newman, Lesléa	Felicia's Favorite Story Mama Linda and Mama Nessa tell Felicia the story of her adoption: how they flew off in a big silver airplane to meet her; how they loved her as soon as they saw her; and how they named here Felicia, a Spanish word that means "happy", because having her in	2002
JE OELSC	Oelschlager, Vanita	Made in China: A Story of Adoption Made in China tells the story of a girl adopted into an American family and the problems she encounters with her older sister. with help from her father, the adopted sister learns the value of her Chinese beginnings. Later the girls accept their differenc	2008
JE	Okimoto, Jean Davies	The White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption Across North America, people in four different homes prepare for a special trip to China, while four baby girls in China await their new adoptive parents.	2002
JE	Peacock, Carol Antoinette	Mommy Far, Mommy Near: An Adoption Story Elizabeth, who was born in China, describes the family who has adopted her and tries to sort out her feelings for her unknown mother.	2000
JE PETTI	Pettitt, Linda	Yafi's Family : An Ethiopian Boy's Journey of Love, Loss, and Adoption	2010
JE	Rosenberg, Liz	We Wanted You Parents tell how they waited and prepared for the child that they wanted so much.	2002
JE	Say, Allen	Allison When Allison realizes that she looks more like her favorite doll than like her parents, she comes to terms with this unwelcomed discovery through the help of a stray cat.	1997
JE	Schreck, Karen Halvorsen	Lucy's Family Tree Lucy, an adopted child from Mexico, is convinced that her family background is too complicated for her to make a family tree she is supposed to create for a homework assignment.	2001
JE SHEMI	Shemin, Craig	Families are Forever This story introduces Rain, a nearly six-year-old Chinese-American adopted girl, and tells how she found her 'forever family', a single mother in America.	2003
JE SUGAR	Sugarman, Brynn Olenberg	Rebecca's Journey Home Mr. and Mrs. Stein and their young sons Gabe and Jacob adopt a baby girl from Vietnam.	2006
JE THISD	Thisdale, François	Nini A story about a baby's adoption.	2011
JE	Thomas, Eliza	The Red Blanket Thomas tells the story of a single woman who goes to China to adopt a baby and how a red blanket becomes a connection between new mother and daughter.	2004
JE	Turner, Ann Warren	Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies A boy who came from far away to be adopted by a couple in this country remembers how unfamiliar and frightening some of the things were in his new home, before he accepted the love to be found there.	1990
JE WILLI	Willis, Wayne	This Is How We Became a Family: An Adoption Story A childless husband and wife who want a baby adopt the child of a young woman who cannot keep it.	2000
JE	Zisk, Mary	The Best Single Mom in the World: How I Was Adopted A girl tells how her mother decided to become a single parent and traveled overseas to adopt her and describes their happy life as a family.	2001

DVDs

Note: All call numbers are for the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana

CALL #	TITLE	DATE
DVD JE ARTHU	Big Brother Binky Binky's family adopts a baby girl from China. Binky is excited about preparing for her arrival and visiting China.	2008
DVD JE FAMIL	Family Matters Features two episodes of the PBS television series, Reading Rainbow, with a focus on families and adoption.	2006
DVD JE ILOVE	I Love You Like Crazy Cakes: And More Stories about Families Hear Mia Farrow as she narrates a story celebrating adoption and motherhood.	2006

Websites

Adoption Issues
http://www.adoptionissues.org/
An educational website from the CRC Health Group that addresses some of the emotional issues that surround an adopted child and adoptive parents.

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This list was created and is maintained by Children's Services Librarians.
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