BOOKS ADOPTION, ETC.

 

Adams, David Wallace, Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928, University Press of Kansas, 2020

 

Aviles, Donna Nordmark, Orphan Train to Kansas, Wasteland Press, 2018

 

Bartholet, Elizabeth, Nobody's Children: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative, Beacon Press, 2000

 

Beam, Cris, To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, Mariner Books, 2014

 

Bernstein, Nina, The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2002

 

Berry, Kristin, Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting, Harvest House Publishers, 2020

 

Berry, Mike, Kristin Berry, Honestly Adoption: Answers to 101 Questions About Adoption and Foster Care, Harvest House Publishers, 2019

 

Briggs, Laura, Taking Children: A History of American Terror, University of California Press, 2021

 

Child, Brenda J. , Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 (North American Indian Prose Award), University of Nebraska Press, 2016

 

Christie, Judy, Lisa Wingate, Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, Ballantine Books, 2021

 

Churchill, Ward, Kill the Indian, Save the Man, City Lights Publishers, 2004

 

Coppola, Lisa LMHC, Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees, Boston Post Adoption Resources, 2022

 

Demick, Barbara, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins, Random House, 2025

 

Dettlaff, Alan J., Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition, Oxford University Press, 2023

 

Easterly, Sara, Kelsey Vander, Vliet Ranyard, Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2025

 

Eldridge, Sherrie, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew, Delta 1999

 

Fear-Segal, Jacquelin, Susan D. Rose, Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations (Indigenous Education), University of Nebraska Press, 2018

 

Fessler, Ann, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade, Penguin Books, 2007

 

Fong, Kelley, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services, Princeton University Press, 2023

 

Fortunate Eagle, Pipestone, OUP, 2010

 

Gelles, Richard, Out of Harm's Way: Creating an Effective Child Welfare System, Oxford University Press, 2017

 

Glaser, Gabrielle, American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Secret History of Adoption, Penguin Books, 2022

 

Golden, Victoria, William Walters, A Last Survivor of the Orphan Trains: A Memoir, Orphan Books, 2018

 

Harrison, Kathy, Another Place at the Table, Tarcher, 2004

 

Henderson, Rob, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, Gallery Books, 2025

 

Holt, Marilyn Irvin, The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America, Bison Books, 1994

 

Ja, Janine Myung, Rare Adoption Books, Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists (Adoption Books for Adults), CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

 

Jacobs, Margaret D., A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World, University of Nebraska Press, 2023

 

Jacobs, Margaret D., White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940, University of Nebraska Press, 2011

 

Joyce, Kathryn, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption, PublicAffairs, 2013

 

Kenneally, Christine, Ghosts of the Orphanage, PublicAffairs, 2023

 

Lajimodiere, Denise K., Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors (Contemporary Voices of Indigenous Peoples), North Dakota State University Press, 2021

 

Lash, Don, "When the Welfare People Come": Race and Class in the US Child Protection System, Haymarket Books, 2017

 

Lomawaima, K. Tsianina, Brenda J. Child, Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000, Heard Museum, 2000

 

Marble, Heidi, Alysa Zalma MD, Pulled by the Root: An Adoptee's Healing Journey From Trauma, Shame, and Loss , Koehler Books, 2024

 

Melina, Lois Ruskai, Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent, William Morrow Paperbacks, 1998

 

Moody, Anne, The Children Money Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022

 

O'Toole, Elisabeth, In On It: What Adoptive Parents Would Like You To Know About Adoption. A Guide for Relatives and Friends. (Mom’s Choice Award Winner), FIG Press, LLC, 2010

 

Patrick, Michael D., Evelyn Goodrich Trickel, Orphan Trains to Missouri (Missouri Heritage Readers) (Volume 1), University of Missouri, 1997

 

Petersen,  Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care, B&H Books, 2022

 

Pratt, Richard Henry, Robert M. Utley, Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867–1904 , University of Oklahoma Press, 2004

 

Pryce, Jessica, Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker, Amistad, 2025

 

Pusey, Marcy, Parenting Children of Trauma: The Foster-Adoption Guide to Understanding Attachment Disorder, Miramare Ponte Press, 2019

 

Riley, Naomi Schaefer, No Way to Treat a Child: How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives, Bombardier Books, 2021

 

Seraile, William, Angels of Mercy: White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum (Empire State Editions), Empire State Editions, 2013

 

Sisson, Gretchen, Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood, St. Martin's Press, 2024

 

Sjöblom, Lisa Wool-Rim, Palimpsest: Documents From a Korean Adoption, Drawn and Quarterly, 2019

 

Tantrum, Barbara, Deborah Gray MPA LICSW, The Adoptive Parents' Handbook: A Guide to Healing Trauma and Thriving with Your Foster or Adopted Child, North Atlantic Books, 2020

 

Trafzer, Clifford E., Jean A. Keller, Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences (Indigenous Education), Bison Books, 2006

 

Tucker, Angela, "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption, Beacon Press, 2024

 

Verrier, Nancy Newton, The Primal Wound, Gateway Press, 2003

 

Wellington, Rebecca, Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption, University of Oklahoma Press, 2024

 

Wesson, Rachel, Orphan Train Tragedy (Hearts On The Rails), Independently published, 2019

 

Wolfson, Jill, Somebody Else's Children: The Courts, The Kids, and The Struggle to Save America's Troubled Families, iUniverse, 2003

 

Woolford, Andrew, This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States (Indigenous Education), University of Nebraska Press, 2018

 



No comments:

Post a Comment