Delly Duck: Why A Little Chick Couldn’t Stay With His Birth Mother
This is a children’s picture book that centers around a foster care adoption story. It’s meant to help explain adoption support, kinship care, and special…
Resource Age: 5-12 yrs
My Forever Family: from fostering to adoption
This children’s book is about a young boy’s journey from foster care to adoption. It highlights the adoption process in simple terms and is meant…
The White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption
This is a children’s picture book that talks about the process of adoption from China. It shows the steps from the adoption agency paperwork, to…
Ten Days and Nine Nights: An Adoption Story
This book follows a little girl as she and her family prepare for a new child. It shows the girl’s mother flying off to Korea,…
Matilda
This is a classic fiction book about a precocious, intellectual girl and her journey through life and school. The protagonist (Matilda) is characterized as astonishingly…
The Boxcar Children
This is a book series following the four Alden siblings, who make their home in a boxcar. The books focus on themes such as family,…
The Pinballs
This is a fictitious story about a young girl, Carlie, and her journey through foster care. She befriends the other children that she shares a…
Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War
This is a true story about life in a Saigon orphanage, a rescue flight from Vietnam to Canada, and international adoption. It tells the story…
Heidi
This is a story about a young orphan (Heidi) who lives with her grandfather. When Heidi goes to Germany to work in a wealthy household,…
Oliver Twist
This is a classic, fictitious story about a young orphan who runs away to live with a group of pickpockets. Dickens created an entirely new…
