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Adoption Dilemma, The Handbook for Adoptive Parents, A	Scheppler, Vincenette, M.S.W.	Adoptive Parents	362.73 S	1989
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As a social worker with a good number of years experience in the field of adoption, I would be likely to advise parents who heard such comments from their children to listen carefully to what is really being said, to give the assurance the children need to really listen, not argue give them ample opportunity to discuss their feelings." "What do you mean your 'Real Parents'? I am your mother your 'Real Mother.' but we both know what he means. Adoption does present a dilemma. And the successful resolution of that dilemma is what determines the success of every adoptive placement.

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Adoption Goes to School Family Helper No. 45	Hilborn, Robin	Adoptive Parents	371.829 H	2004
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It's a big step from the home and daycare to the world of school, and for many parents it's a time when they hope their child will have a positive early experience of school. Our children, who've come to us through adoption, sometimes have special issues when they start to move from the shelter of home into the community at large, especially at school. Their developmental readiness is influenced by their genetic makeup and past environmental influences.

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Adoption Parenting Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections	MacLeod, Jean Macrae, Sheena, PhD	Adoptive Parents	649.145Mac	2006
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Adoption Parenting" looks at the core issues all members of the adoption triad face, and how they affect parenting techniques that just might not be the right fit for adopted children. Chapters include: Getting Started, Claiming, Language, Food, Baggage, Discipline, Loss and Grief, Transitions, Siblings, Narratives, Learning, School, Race, Older Child Adoption, Challenges (Including Physical and Emotional issues), Support, Therapy, and Journey. We look hard at the joys and challenges of our rewarding role ---Adoption Parenting!

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Adoption Piece By Piece-Lifelong Issues	Grafe, Sara	Adoptive Parents, Alternative Parents	362.73Graf
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All Kinds of Families	Simon, Norma	Children	301.42S
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Describes many different types of families: two parent, adoptive, single parent, sibling groups, divorced, grandparents, childless, etc. They may be different sizes or different ages, but a family is always part of you, a special part of your life.

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Anthony's Surprise	Grace, Roz	Children 2-8	CF - G
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Dedication: To all who dream of a color-free world for children. Anthony is a little adopted boy. He does not understand why people look at him funny sometimes. He is biracial. He does not know or understand this fact.

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Are Those Kids Yours? American Families with Children from Other Countries	Register, Cheri	Adoptive Parents	362.7-RE
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Well written & researched, author uses her own experience and those of other families to explore international adoption, why it has become so prevalent, how children adjust, how racial issues are handled, & how children can stay in touch with their roots.

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Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents	Gray, Deborah D.	Adoptive Parents	362.73Gray
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Written by a clinical SocWkr, takes a close look at how children & families adjust. Especially pertains to adopting older children who may have been abused/neglected. Encourages realistic expectations & offers excellent practical suggestions for bonding.

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Being Adopted	Rosenberg, Maxine B.	Children	362.7R
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Through very expressive b&w photos, this picture book tells the true stories of several children adopted internationally & at older ages. Normalizes their experience & encourages their pride in their heritage & in their loving adoptive families.

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Beyond the Babylift	Purdy, Pamela Chatterton	Adoptive Parents	362.7P
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Birth Marks Transracial Adoption in Contemporary America	Patton, Sandra	Adoptive Parents	362.73Pa
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This superb study of transracial adoption in the United States addresses profoundly vexing & divisve questions about the social, biological, cultural and political meanings of identity.

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Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib	John, Jaiya	Adopted Adults Adoptive Parents	362.7Jo
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Black is Brown is Tan	Adoff, Arnold	Children 2-8	CF-A	1973
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Momma is the color of chocolate milk and coffee pumpkin pie. Daddy is white, lighter than brown, but his face turns tomato red when he puffs and yells the children to bed. Children and grandparents and aunts and uncles are all the colors of the rainbow, and the whole family is filled to overflowing with love. Arnold Adoff, an acclaimed poet, is a recipient of the National Council of Teachers of English Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.

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Case for Transracial Adoption, The	Rita, Simon J.		306.85B
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Rita Simon and her collaborators have been the leading empirical investigators of transracial adoption over the past quarter century. The Case for Transracial Adoption is a summary and continuation of that excellent work.

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Climbing Jacob's Ladder The Enduring Legacy of African- American Families	Billingsley, Andrew		306.85B
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This book takes a fresh look at the evolution of Black families, describes the forces that have shaped them, and examines their resiliency in the face of difficult conditions, and the strengths that help them endure.

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Colors Come from God …Just Like Me!	Forche, Carolyn A.	Children	242F
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An excellent book for fostering a child's racial self-esteem. The story is told by an African- American girl who tells of the many things God created and their beauty in the diversity of colors God gave them.

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Complete Adoption Book, The Everything You need to Know to Adopt a Child	Beauvais-Godwin, L.		326.7B
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The authors, adoption professionals and the parents of 2 adopted daughters, have created a most comprehensive resource book. Every imaginable topic: the decision to adopt, the available avenues, the finances & legalities are covered in surprising depth.

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Different and Wonderful Raising Black Children in A Race Conscious Society	Hopson, Dr. Darlene Powell		362.7H
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Edgar Allan	Neufeld, John	Children Adoptees Parents	TF - Neu
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Edgar Allan is a book for readers of all ages. Written from the point of view of a twelve-year-old boy, it tells the story of what happens to a middle-class, suburban ---- and white-----family that decides to adopt a black child. It examines through the clear eyes of a boy about to become a man the failures and weaknesses of our society.

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Foster Care Odyssey A Black Girl's Story	Cameron, Theresa	Adoptees Adoptive Parents	362.73C
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Without signing the documents that would permit adoption, young Theresa Cameron's mother placed her little daughter under the aegis of Catholic Charities and then vanished forever.

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Fostering Changes	Delaney, Richard	Adoptees Adoptive Parents
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Gay Dads A Celebration of Fatherhood	Strah, David	Alternative Parents	306.874S
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This book skillfully documents a quiet revolution taking place in neighborhoods, schools, and playgrounds across the country as out gay men shake up popular perceptions of what constitutes the American Family.

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Getting Started on Adoption: Preparing the Heart	Severson, Randolph W.	Alternative Parents
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Gift Children	Bates, Douglas	Adoptive Parents	362.7B
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A story of race, family, and adoption in a divided America.

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I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla Raising Healthy Black & Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World	Wright, Marguerite A.		155.8W
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Teaches parents & educators of black & biracial children how to reduce racism's impact on a child's development - from preschool through adolescence - & in doing so to raise emotionally healthy children.

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Inside Transracial Adoption	Steinberg, Gail & Hall, Beth	Adoptive Parents	362.73St
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Using research, social reality, & personal experience, book provides creative guidance to prospective parents who are considering transracial adoption for the first time & also for veterans. Directon for building close families whose members differ racially

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Is That Your Sister? A True Story of Adoption	Bunin, Catherine & Sherry	Children	362.7B
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This book explains the process of adopting as well as the feelings of an adopted child.

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Living in Two Worlds	Rosenberg, Maxine B.	Children 9-12	306.8R
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A photo essay about the special world of bi-racial children, who experience the advantages of two different cultures but sometimes face problems and prejudices.

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Lost Daughters of China,The Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America & Search	Evans, Karen	Adoptees Adoptive Parents	362.73E
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Explores the emotional & political complexities that create families across the boundries of culture & geography. A sensitive & moving book of real life stories of some of the 18,000 Chinese children, mostly girls, adopted by Americans.

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Loved By Choice True Stories that Celebrate Adoption	Horner, Susan	Adoptive Parents	306.874H
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Loved By Choice offers a clear & uplifting look at adoption through true stories told from virtually every perspective.

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Loving Across The Color Line A White Adoptive Mother Learns about Race	Rush, Sharon E.	Adoptive Parents	305.8R
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Poignant description of the loving relationship between the Caucasian author & her adopted African American daughter. Through the eyes of her daughter she learns that racial issues are much more devastating than she had ever imagined.

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Making a New Home In America	Rosenberg, Maxine B.	Children	325.73R
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Leaving the country of one's birth to live in another is never easy. In this book the feelings of four children, new to America, are explored.

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Mixed Families Adopting Across Racial Boundaries	Ladner, Joyce	Adoptive Parents	362.7L
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There are over 15,000 couples in the United States who have adopted a child from another race. For some the adoption has broken down the barrier of skin color and illuminated endless possibilities of what a family can and must be.

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Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoption	Trenka, Jane Jeong Oparah, Julia Chinyere	Adopted Adults Adoptive Parents	362.734 Tr	2006
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Explores transracial adoption from adopted adults' perspectives using memoir, reflective/analytical essays, poetry, artwork, film critique, psychology, sociology, critical race, reproductive justice, more. Discusses reasons children become available for international adoption (war, poverty, structural inequities), ramifications of the colorblind ideal for adoptees (dealing with racism, cultural alienation, emotional isolation)"---- Provided by publisher.

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'Race', Ethnicity And Adoption	Kirton, Derek		362.273K
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This book reviews the long running and often fierce controversy surrounding the adoption of black and minority ethnic children, either transracially into white families or into matched 'same race' placements.

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Realities of Adoption, The	Smith, Jerome	Adoptive Parents	362.7S
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Not a how-to book. Written by a social workekr/professor & adoptive parent. Covers the history of adoption, the concept of entitlement, the "telling", open adoption, stages of development in the adopted child, transracial adoption. Lots of insights.

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Wake Up Little Susie Single Pregnancy And Race Before Roe V. Wade	Solinger, Rickie	Birth Parents	306.85S
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This book is social history at its best. The author unravels the complex, disturbing reality of single pregnancy in the post World War II era. She explores the way in which race, more than any other factor, defined the experience of unwed motherhood.

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Weaving a Family Untangling Race and Adoption	Rothman, Barbara Katz	Adoptive Parents	362.734 Ro	2005
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"A bold and passionate autobiographical account of a white mother raising her adopted black daughter. Rothman is a loving mother and also a fine sociologist. The blend of these gives us an honest and insightful book. A must read."

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Whale Talk	Crutcher, Chris	Children	TF - Cr
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Dynamic, compelling, adventurous novel about TJ, a smart, talented, multi-racial adopted teen who faces the subtle and not so subtle racial discriminations of his world.

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Whoever You Are	Fox, Mem	Children 2-8	305.8F
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Despite the differences between people around the world, there are similarities that join us together, such as pain, joy, and love.

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Why Am I Different?	Simon, Norma	Children 2-8	155.2S
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This book explains that people are unique, that everyone is different, and that these differences are part of what makes people interesting.. One of the stories is about a child who is adopted.