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Adoption In Canada Books For Adoptees
Adoption is such a fascinating subject you could write a book about it.
And you know what -- many people have.
Here’s a list of some of our favourites for adoptees and their families, along with hundreds of other titles that readers have recommended. Got a book you want the world to know about? Send us the title at info@canadaadopts.com and we’ll be happy to make room for it on our shelf.
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The Face in the Mirror: Teenagers and Adoption
Crook, Marion. Arsenal Pulp 2000. Based on interviews with adopted teens, adoptive parents and birth parents, this book offers a frank discussion about the complexities of being a teen today and the additional issues about identity that adoption raises. |
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Adopted Teens Only: A Survival Guide to Adolescence
Gorbett, Danea. iUniverse 2004. A guide for adopted teens related to all aspects of adoption including search and reunion and dealing with the feelings of adoptive and birth parents. |
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The Very Worst Thing
Hayden, Torey. HarperCollins Canada 2003. What happens to David and his sister, Lily, who are both in foster care, when Lily is sent to a juvenile detention center. |
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How It Feels to Be Adopted
Kremetz, Jill. Knopf, 1982. Adopted children share their experiences. |
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I'm Still Me
Lifton, Betty Jean. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Uplifting story about what it means to be adopted. |
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A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
Reinhardt, Dana. Random House, 2007. Simone’s life at high school gets turned upside down when her birth mother contacts her and forces her to questions aspects of her life that she always took for granted. |
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All About Adoption: How to Deal with the Questions of Your Past
Shaw, Tucker. Harry N. Abrams Inc. 2006. Reassuring answers to questions faced by teenage adoptees. |
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Adopted: the Ultimate Teen Guide
Slade, Suzanne. Scarecrow Press 2007. An overview about what teens and their parents can expect from their adoption experience. |
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Rules of Survival
Werlin, Nancy. Dial Books Young Readers 2006. Written in the form of a letter to his youngest sister, a young man shares his struggle to live a normal life after being abused by his emotionally unstable mother. |
Adoptees: Adults
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Identical Stranger: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
Berstein, Paula and Schein, Elyse. Random House. 2007. Identical twins, both placed for adoption, reflect on the circumstances surrounding their birth and try to come to terms with their past. |
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Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self
Brodzinsky, David. Anchor, 1993. The different life passages experienced by adoptees as they make their way from infancy to old age. |
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A Wealth of Family: An Adopted Son's International Quest for Heritage, Reunion, and Enrichment
Brooks, Thomas. Alpha Multimedia 2006. One adoptee’s international search and reunion affects three families in three continents. |
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Explication: One Adoptee's Experience
Bryan, Jen. Writers Club Press 2001. One woman’s harrowing experience with adoption. |
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Outer Search, Inner Journey: A Orphan and Adoptee's Quest
Dodds, Peter. Aphrodite Publishing Company 1997. A German adoptee discusses what happens when a child is taken from his country of origin and loses his family, language, culture, heritage and history. |
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Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Eldridge, Sherrie. Delta, 1999. Explores the unique feelings that adoptees experience, including loss and abandonment and how to deal with them. |
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Twenty Life Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make
Eldridge, Sherrie. Pinon Press, 2003. A re-united adoptee outlines some of the key decisions that adoptees have to make to give their life meaning and purpose. |
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The Adoption Reunion Handbook
Feast, Julie; Howe, David and Trinder, Elizabeth. Wiley, 2005. Step-by-step advice and guidance for adoptees trying to find information about their origins and/or search for their birth family members. |
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Filling in the Blanks: A Guided Look at Growing Up Adopted
Gabel, Susan. Indianopolis:Perspectives Press, 1988. Clearheaded explanation of what happens when adopted babies become adopted children. |
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Whose Child?: An Adoptee's Healing Journey from Relinquishment through Reunion,,, and Beyond
Hamner, Kasey. Triad Publishing, 2000. An adoptee reflects on the sense of loneliness and isolation she felt growing up in a closed adoption and as a victim of abuse and on the emotional impact of her search and reunion with her birth parents. |
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The Mistress' Daughter
Homes, A.M. Viking 2007. A novelist confronts her birth parents after her birth mother comes looking for her thirty years after placing her for adoption. |
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Somebody's Daughter
Lee, Marie Myung-Ok. Beacon Press 2006. An adoptee’s journey back to Korea to find her birth mother. |
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Baby Boy-R: A Memoir
Martinez, Ray. iUniverse 2007. A retired police officer puts his investigative skills to use to track down his birthmother and shares the details of the bittersweet reunion that followed. |
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Daughters of the Ganges: The Story of One Girl's Adoption and Her Return Journey to India
Miro, Asha. Atria Books 2007. An adoptee returns to India to connect with her roots and discovers the sister she never knew. |
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Out There Somewhere: the True Story of an Adoptee's Search for Her Biological Heritage
Park, Jane. Authorhouse 2007. One woman spends 11 years searching for her birth parents before she finally meets them and her 10 siblings. |
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The Family of Adoption: Completely Revised and Updated
Pavao, Joyce Maguire. Beacon Press 2005. A family and adoption therapist charts the developmental stages of adoptees and offers insights into the process, including what to expect and how to deal with different life passages. |
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An Adopted Child Looks at Adoption
Prentice, Carol. Kessinger Publishing 2005. The tears and joys of one adoptee’s adoption experience. |
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Adoption Wisdom: A Guide to the Issues and Feelings of Adoption
Russell, Marlou. Broken Branch Productions 1996. An adoptee shares her experiences about the realities and feelings stirred up by adoption. |
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Ithaka
Saffian, Sarah. New York: Basic Books, 1998. What happened after an adoptee was "found" by her birthparents. |
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Birthright: The Guide to Search and Reunion for Adoptees, Birthparents and Adoptive Parents
Strauss, Jean. Penguin 1994. Strategies on how to find birth relatives by an adoptee who searched for hers. |
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Dave's Way: A New Approach to Old-Fashioned Success
Thomas, R. David. G.F. Putnam's Sons 1991. Thomas, an adoptee and the founder of Wendy's, shares his recipe for success. |
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Coming Home to Self: The Adopted Child Grows Up
Verrier, Nancy. Nancy Verrier, 2003. An adoptee chronicles the range of emotions that adoptees feel and how they can find what she calls their “authentic self”. |
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Scattered Siblings: An Adoptee's Search for His Biological Roots
Weeks, Lawrence. Authorhouse 2006. An adoptee search for his roots last 25 years. |
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Chasing Away the Shadows: An Adoptee's Journey to Motherhood
Zara, Phillips. Authorhouse 2006. An adoptee search for his roots last 25 years. |
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