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Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye by Lois LowrySee No Color by Shannon GibneyFar from the Tree by Robin BenwayA Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life by Dana ReinhardtWhen the Black Girl Sings by Bil Wright
YA Adoption Fiction
249 books — 47 voters
Uprooted by Peter J. BoniAccidental Sisters by Katherine Linn CaireBattle Cry by Jordyn GlaserKisses from Katie by Katie Davis MajorsFixing the Fates by Diane Dewey
Best Memoirs About Adoption
52 books — 47 voters

In Our Mothers' House by Patricia PolaccoMy New Mom & Me by Renata GalindoHome at Last by Vera B. WilliamsWe Belong Together by Todd ParrA Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
Adoption and Foster Care Picture Books
130 books — 45 voters
Viva Lofton by Lonnie LazarThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddMary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn MeyerCity of Bones by Cassandra ClareTill We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Bad Dads
139 books — 43 voters

Braided Love by Jo Elizabeth PintoAdoption Is a Lifelong Journey by Kelly DiBenedettoThe Search for Mother Missing by Janine VanceDelly Duck by Holly MarlowI Don't Have Your Eyes by Carrie A. Kitze
Adoption Books for Kiddos
42 books — 38 voters
This I Know by Eldonna EdwardsThe Horse and His Boy by C.S. LewisThe Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee StewartThe Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim EdwardsThe Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Separated at Birth
68 books — 36 voters

Uprooted by Peter J. BoniDelly Duck by Holly MarlowVoices Unheard by Lisa Coppola LMHCWho Is a Worthy Mother? by Rebecca WellingtonAdoption Is a Lifelong Journey by Kelly DiBenedetto
Adoption Books
24 books — 33 voters
Through Wolf's Eyes by Jane LindskoldThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelGuards! Guards! by Terry PratchettThe Jungle Book by Rudyard KiplingAcorna by Anne McCaffrey
Raised By Another: Interspecies Adoption in Fiction
32 books — 25 voters

Someone Named Eva by Joan M. WolfIndian Captive by Lois LenskiThe Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. CooneyCoraline by Neil GaimanCry No More by Linda Howard
Adoption Via Abduction
89 books — 24 voters
June First by Jennifer HartmannKing of Carnage by R.E. BondPoisoned Paradise by Lucy SmokeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Raised as siblings, but not actually related - Romance
28 books — 24 voters

Lost Love's Return by Alfred NicolsRising Tides by Nora RobertsSea Swept by Nora RobertsFinding You by Jo WatsonEdge of Eighteen by Melinda Hazen
Adopted: Romance Leads who were Adopted
82 books — 22 voters
Dare You To by Katie McGarryStand Alone by P.D. WorkmanCrash by Nicole WilliamsClash by Nicole WilliamsThe Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines
Books about about kids who had a bad start in life
30 books — 21 voters

Lost Love's Return by Alfred NicolsA Lady by Midnight by Tessa DareBetween the Devil and Desire by Lorraine HeathSurrender to the Devil by Lorraine HeathThe Governess Game by Tessa Dare
Orphaned Hero/Heroine in Romance
109 books — 19 voters
Adoption Is a Lifelong Journey by Kelly DiBenedettoWhen We Become Ours by Shannon GibneyAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyThe War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
children's books about adoption, age +8
29 books — 15 voters

My Name Is Rachel by Lorna PeelWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensFamily Likeness by Caitlin DaviesBack From the Brink by Paul McGrathThe Shoebox Kid by Judith Lawrence Outten
Children abandoned by or separated from Birth Parents
26 books — 15 voters
Mercy Watson Fights Crime by Kate DiCamilloMercy Watson by Kate DiCamilloMercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig by Kate DiCamilloMercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamilloMercy Watson Goes for a Ride by Kate DiCamillo
Silly, fun, and SWEET children's books
49 books — 10 voters

I Hunt Killers by Barry LygaDaughter by Kate McLaughlinHave You Seen This Girl by Nita TyndallKilling Time by Carlyn GreenwaldYou're No Better by Andrew Joseph White
Sons and Daughters of Sam
26 books — 7 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThirty-Eight Days of Rain by Eva AsprakisThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'FarrellThe Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Step and Adoptive Families in Fiction
33 books — 7 voters

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. AndrewsAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryDuckTales, Vol. 1 by Joe CaramagnaThe Bad Beginning by Lemony SnicketThe Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Siblings Raising Children Together
38 books — 6 voters
Cinder by Marissa MeyerThe False Princess by Eilis O'NealRuby Holler by Sharon CreechA Drowned Maiden's Hair by Laura Amy SchlitzThe Complete Wreck by Lemony Snicket
Adoption Dissolution
22 books — 6 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Rose Legacy by Jessica Day GeorgeAlcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians [Dramatized Adaptation] by Brandon SandersonSon of a Witch by Gregory MaguireOddity by Eli Brown
Luke, I Am Your Mother
10 books — 6 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakIndian Captive by Lois LenskiReturnable Girl by Pamela LowellThe Sunken Town by Karen NelsonThe First Escape by G.P. Taylor
Reluctant Adoptee
50 books — 5 voters

Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg SloanBeyond the Bright Sea by Lauren WolkAnne of Green Gables by Kathleen OlmsteadCairo Hughes by Millie MurrayThe Year the Maps Changed by Danielle Binks
children's books about adoption, ages 10-14
25 books — 3 voters
Cry No More by Linda HowardThe Family Next Door by Sally HepworthThe Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
Uncomfortably Justified Kidnappings
3 books — 1 voter

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