Materials on Adoption 
& Adoptive Families 

These resources are available at
the Lake Oswego Public Library:

706 4th Street Lake Oswego, OR 97034
phone (503) 675-2540


Last Updated 10-29-09

Adult Non-Fiction

Call Numbers

Titles

155.4
PUDNEY
A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger
155.445
HUGHES
Facilitating Developmental Attachment:
the
Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children
305.800973
TATUM

Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
And other conversations about race

306.874
BLUESTEIN
Parents, Teens, and Boundaries: How to Draw the Line
362.73
KINN
Be My Baby: Parents and Children Talk About Adoption
REF
362.734
ADAMEC
Encyclopedia of Adoption

362.734

ADAMEC

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adoption

362.734

ADAMEC

Is Adoption for You?  The Information You Need to Make the Right Choice
362.734
ADOPTION
The Adoption Reader; Birth Mothers, Adoptive and Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories.
362.734
ALPERSON
Dim sum, Bagels, and Grits: A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families.
362.734
BAILEY
Adoption Reunion Survival Guide: Preparing Yourself for the Search, Reunion and Beyond

362.734

BARR

Adoption for Dummies

362.734

BEAUVAIS-GODWIN

The Complete Adoption Book: Everything You Need to Know to Adopt a Child

362.734

BOWEN

Mei Mei - Little Sister: Portraits from a Chinese Orphanage
362.734
BRODZINSKY
Being Adopted: the Lifelong Search For Help
362.734
BURLINGAME-BROWN
"Why Didn’t She Keep Me?": Answers to the Question Every Adopted Child Asks. . .

362.734

BURNS

Fast Track Adoption: The Faster, Safer Way to Privately Adopt a Baby

362.734

COUGHLIN

Cross-Cultural Adoption: How to Answer Questions from Family, Friends & Community

362.734

CULTURE

Cultures of Transnational Adoption
362.734
DANN
The Baby Boat: a Memoir of Adoption

362.734

DAVENPORT

The Complete Book of International Adoption: A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding Your Child
362.734
DORMON
So You Want to Adopt—Now What?

362.734             

DUXBURY

Making Room in our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties through Open Adoption
362.734
ELDRIDGE
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive  Parents Knew
362.734

ESHLEMAN

Becoming a Family: Promoting Healthy Attachments with Your Adopted Child

362.734

FALKER

The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Adoption
362.734

FAMILIES

Families by Law: An Adoption Reader

362.734         

FAMILY

Family wanted: Stories of adoption

362.734

FOLI

The Post-Adoption Blues: Overcoming the Unforeseen Challenges of Adoption
362.734

GALLUCCIO

American Family

362.734         

GAMMAGE

China Ghosts: My Daughter’s Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood
362.734

GARFIELD

For Love of a Child: Stories of Adoption

362.734
GILLESPIE
Successful Adoption: A Guide for Christian Families
362.734
GRAY
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents

362.734             

GRAY

Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma
362.734 
HICKS
Adopting in America; How to Adopt Within One Year

362.734

HICKS

Adoption: The Essential Guide to Adopting Quickly and Safely
362.734

HOPPENHAUER

Adopting a Toddler

362.734

I

I Wish for You a Beautiful Life

362.734

JOHNSON    

Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, & Orphanage Care in China

362.734 
JOHNSTON
Adoption is a Family Affair! What Relatives and Friends Must Know
362.734
KECK
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope For Families with Special-Needs Kids
362.734
KEEFER
Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past
362.734
KLOSE
Adopting Alyosha: a Single Man Finds a Son in Russia
362.734
LIEBERMAN
Creating Ceremonies: Innovative Ways to Meet Adoption Challenges

362.734

LIFTON

Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness
362.734
LIFTON
Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter

362.734

MACLEAN

Chinese Adoption Handbook: How to Adopt from China and Korea

362.734

MACLEAN    

Russian Adoption Handbook: How to Adopt from Russian, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan & Moldova

362.734
MASKEW
Our Own, Adopting and Parenting the Older Child
362.734
McCOLM
Adoption Reunions; a Book for Adoptees, Birth Parents and Adoptive Families
362.734
MELINA
Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent

362.734

MINTZER

Yes, You Can Adopt! A Comprehensive Guide to Adoption
362.734
NELSON-ERICHSEN
How to Adopt Internationally: a Guide for Agency Directed and Independent Adoptions
362.734
NORLING
Patty’s Journey: from Orphanage to Adoption and Reunion

362.734            

O’MALLEY

Lifebooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child

362.734
PATTON
Birthmarks: Transracial Adoption in Contemporary America
362.734
PAVAO
Family of Adoption
362.734
PERTMAN 
Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America
362.734
POHL
Transracial Adoption; Children and Parents Speak

362.734

REGISTER

"Are Those Kids Yours?": American Families with Children Adopted from Other Countries
362.734
RILEY
Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens
362.734
ROLES
Vol. 1
Saying Goodbye to a Baby; a Guide to Loss and Grief in Adoption
362.734
ROLES

Vol. 2

Saying Goodbye to a Baby; a Counselor’s Guide to Birthparent Loss and Grief in Adoption

362.734

ROTHMAN

Weaving a Family: Untangling Race & Adoption

362.734

SAVAGE

The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
362.734

SEMBER

The Adoption Answer Book
362.734

SEMBER

Complete Adoption and Fertility Legal Guide

362.734

SEMBER

Gay and Lesbian Parenting Choices: From Adoptions or Using a Surrogate to Choosing
the
Perfect Father

362.734

SILBER

Children of Open Adoption and Their Families
362.734
STEINBERG
Inside Transracial Adoption
362.734

TRENKA

Language of Blood: a Memoir

362.734

TUCKER

Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir

362.734          UEKERT         

10 Steps to Successful International Adoption: A Guided Workbook for Prospective Parents           

362.734
VARON
Adopting on Your Own: the Complete Guild to Adoption

362.734

WATERS

Arms Wide Open: An Insight into Open Adoption
362.734 
WOLFF
Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother
362.76
BARTHOLET
Nobody’s Children, Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoptive Alternative

362.8298

ELDRIDGE

Twenty Life-Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make

371.93
GREENBAUM
Helping Adolescents with ADHD & Learning Disabilities
615.822

MCCLURE

Infant Massage
616.8521

HERMAN

Trauma and Recovery (1992 and 1997 eds.)

618.92

MILLER

Handbook of International Adoption Medicine: A Guide for Physicians, Parents & Providers
649.145
KECK
Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow
649.145
MCCREIGHT
Parenting Your Adopted Older Child
649.145
MELINA
Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent
951.1225
PRAGER
Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China
Main Floor 
Magazines
Adoptive Families

Adult Non-Fiction Videos and DVDs

362.734            

CHINA’S

DVD

China’s Lost Girls

362.734

I                          

DVD

“I Have Roots and Branches”
Personal Reflections on Adoption

362.734            

LOVE

DVD

Love without Boundaries

362.734            

PERSPECTIVES     

DVD

Perspectives on Adoption: International Adoptees
Tell Their Stories

419               

GARCIA

KIT W/VIDEO

Sign with your Baby

Adult Fiction

WEINFELD,

Chaya

New Beginnings

WEST,

Stanley                   

Finding Laura Buggs

Juvenile Non-Fiction

J 362.734

GIANNETTI

Who Am I?: And Other Questions of Adopted Kids

J 362.734
KREMENTZ
How It Feels to be Adopted
J 398.2
HEO
The Green Frogs

J 641.5951

MOEY

Chinese Feasts and Festivals: A Cookbook

J 863

KISSINGER

All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color
J 909
COPSEY
Children Just Like Me; a Unique Celebration of Children Around the World
J 915.1
OLSON
China

Juvenile Non-Fiction DVDs

J 394.26

CHINESE

DVD

Chinese New Year

Juvenile Compact Discs

J 789

CHINA

Chinese Lullabies

Juvenile Fiction

J
CALDWELL
The Ocean Within
J
MAGORIAN
Good Night, Mr. Tom

TAYLOR
The Trouble with Tuck
Easy Non-Fiction

155.937              

MUNDY

Sad Isn’t Bad: a Good-Grief Guidebook
for Kids Dealing with Loss

305.23

PAYNE

Just Because I am: a Child’s Book of Affirmation

E 362.734

BUNTING

Jin Woo

362.734

CASELEY
Sisters

E 362.734

CUMMINGS

Three Names of Me
E 362.734
CURTIS
Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born

E 362.734

CZECH

An American Face

362.734

KATZ

Over the Moon:  An Adoption Story

362.734

KITZE

I Don’t Have Your Eyes
E 362.734
LEWIS
I Love You Like Crazy Cakes

362.734

LIN

Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale

E 362.734
McCUTCHEON

Happy adoption day!

362.734              

NEMIROFF

All About Adoption: How Families are Made & How Kids Feel About It

 

E 362.734

PARR

We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families

E 362.734

SHERMAN

Families are Forever

E 362.734

STOEKE

Waiting for May

E 362.734

THOMAS

My New Family: A First Look at Adoption

E 362.734

XINRAN

Motherbridge of Love

E 362.734

YOUNG

My Mei Mei
Picture Books

DAVOL

Black, White, Just Right

E

KASZA

A Mother for Choco

E

KELLER

 Horace

E

MUNSCH

Love You Forever

E

PEACOCK

Mommy Far, Mommy Near

E

POLACCO

Mrs. Katz and Tush

E

SANSONE

The Little Green Goose
 
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