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Books by topic:

• Talking With Children about Adoption
• Children's Books About Adoption
• Open Adoption
• Understanding Adopted Persons
• Understanding Birthparents
• Understanding Adoptive Parents
• Reunions

Talking With Children About Adoption

• Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self
  by David Brodzinsky, Ph.D., Marshal Schechter, MD., and Robin Henig
• Making Sense of Adoption
  by Lois Ruskai Melina
• Why Didn't She Keep Me?
  Barbara Burlingham-Brown
• Talking with Young Children about Adoption
  Mary Watkins, Susan Fisher
  
  

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Children’s Books About Adoption

• How It Feels to Be Adopted
  by Jill Kremnetz
• The Mulberry Bird: An Adoption Story
  Anne Braff Brodzinsky
• Beginnings: How Families Come to Be
  Virginia Kroll
• How I Was Adopted: Samantha's Story
  Joanna Cole
• Pugnose Has Two Special Families
  Karis Kruzel
• Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
  Jamie Lee Curtis
• Families Are Different
  Nina Pellegrini
• A Mother for Choco
  Keoko Kasza
• Lucy's Feet
  Stephanie Stein
• Beginnings: How Families Come to Be
  Virginia Kroll
• Twice-Upon-A-Time: Born and Adopted
  Eleanora Patterson
  
  

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Open Adoption

• How to Open an Adoption: A Guide for Parents and Birth Parents of Minors
  Patricia Martinez Dorner
• Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections
  Harold Grotevant, Ruth McRoy
• Children of Open Adoption and Their Families
  Kathleen Silber, Patricia Martinez Dorner
• The Open Adoption Book
  Bruce M. Rappaport
  
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Understanding Adopted Persons

• Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness
  Betty Jean Lifton
• The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child
  Nancy Newton Verrier
• Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter
  Betty Jean Lifton
• Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self
  David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schechter & Robin Marantz Henig
• Children's Adjustment to Adoption: Developmental and Clinical Issues
  David M. Brodzinsky, et al
  
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Understanding Birthparents

• The Other Mother: A Woman’s Love for the Child She Gave Up for Adoption
  Carol Schaefer
• Out of the Shadows: Birthfathers' Stories
  Mary Martin Mason
• Waiting to Forget
  Margaret Moorman
• Saying Goodbye to a Baby: The Birth Parent’s Guide to Grief and Loss in Adoption
  Patricia Roles
• Birth Mothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories
  Merry Bloch Jones
• Giving Away Simone: A Memoir
  Jan L. Waldron
  
  

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Understanding Adoptive Parents

• Wanting a Child
  Jill Bialosky, Helen Schulman
• Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother
  Jana Wolff
• Adopting After Infertility
  by Patricia Irwin Johnson
• The Limits of Hope: An Adoptive Mother's Story
  Ann Kimble Loux
  
  

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Reunions

• A Wealth of Family: An Adopted Son's International Quest for Heritage, Reunion and Enrichment
  Thomas Brooks (Sales of book discounted for The Cradle, and proceeds from book sales benefit The Cradle)
• Lost & Found : The Adoption Experience
  Betty Jean Lifton
• Birthbond: Reunions Bertween Birthparents and Adoptees & What Happens After...
  Judith S. Geidman, et al.
• Ithaka: A Daughter’s Memoir of Being Found
  Sarah Saffian
• A Man and His Mother: An Adopted Son's Search
  Tim Green
  
  

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