23 Books for Adults to Read About Adoption

Each November we celebrate National Adoption Month. This annual campaign seeks to increase awareness of adoption, bring attention to the need for adoptive families for teens experiencing the U.S. foster care system, and emphasize the value of lifelong connections. This year we’ve collected a list of 23 book recommendations for adoptive, foster, and kinship family and friends to learn about topics related to adoption, trauma, early childhood development, and more! If you would like to check out any of these books at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library, start here.

  1. Adopting a Child with a Trauma & Attachment Disruption History by Theresa Fraser

  2. Adoption Parenting by Jean Macleod and Sheena Macrae

  3. Adoption Unfiltered by Sara Easterly

  4. All the Sweeter by Jean Minton

  5. All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

  6. Being Adopted, The Lifelong Search for Self by David M. Brodzinsky

  7. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

  8. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce Perry, et al.

  9. The Connected Child by Karen B. Pervis

  10. Do Right by Me by Valerie I. Harrison

  11. Everyday Ways to Connect with Your Adopted or Fostered Child by Fiona Biggar

  12. Honestly Adoption by Mike Berry

  13. In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption by Rhonda Roorda

  14. It's Not About You by Brooke Randolph

  15. Make Me A Mother by Susanne Antonetta

  16. The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption, Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole by Lori Holden

  17. The Post-adoption Blues by Karen J. Foli

  18. Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child by Nancy Newton Verrier

  19. Relinquished by Robert J. Yaffe

  20. The Adoptive Parents' Handbook by Barbara Cummins Tantrum

  21. The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

  22. What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce D. Perry

  23. What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption by Melissa Guida-Richards

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