Children/Youth, Adoption-Related Books

Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Healing in Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families, Third Party Reproduction (2019) by Sharon Roszia & Allison Davis Maxon

Sometimes I Need…: Helping kids care for their hearts, minds & bodies (2023) – Gabi Garcia (I highly recommend any of Gabi Garcia’s children’s books. They’re all great)

Marie Discovers Her Superpowers (Adoptees Like Me) (2022) by adoptee and psychologist, Chaitra Wirta-Leiker, PhD

Being Adopted (2021) by adoptee, Amy Wilkerson, LCSW, & illustrated by adoptee artists Caleb Yee & Erin Kim

Find Your Calm (2020) by Gabi Garcia

Frankie and Friends Talk Adoption (2018) by adoptees, Pam Kroskie & Marcie Keithley, founders of Indiana Adoptee Network, which evolved into the National Association of Adoptees & Parents

Listening to My Body (2017) by Gabi Garcia

Kindness in a Scary World (2017) by Rebecca Hubbard, MS, LMFT

Love You From Right Here (2017) by Jamie Sandefer

Growing Grace (2017) by Erin Mason

A Safe Circle For Little U (2016) by Paris Goodyear-Brown

The Gift (2015) by Rebecca Hubbard, MS, LMFT

Visiting Feelings (2014) by Lauren Rubenstein, JD, PsyD

Dear Wonderful You, Letters to Adopted and Fostered Youth (2014) by Diane Rene Christian, ed. by Mei-Mei Akwai Ellerman – Written by a global community of adult adoptees and adults who were fostered

The Invisible String (2000) by Patrice Karst (paperback)

The Moccasins (2004) by Earl Einarson, former foster youth

A Terrible Thing Happened (2000) by Margaret M. Holmes