This is a children’s book about a young bird (Choco) who journeys to find a mother who looks just like himself. Eventually, he is taken in by a family that he is not related to. This book is centered around the idea that family is about love — regardless of biological relationship. It emphasizes that families can be, and often are, very diverse.
This is a children’s book about a lost young bat who finds her way safely home to her mother and friends. It explores themes of friendship, celebrating differences, and belonging.
This book is about a Korean-American adoptee who returned to Korea at 20 to search for her birth mother. The author cites feeling conflicted, shattered, exhilarated, and moved in ways she never imagined. It also explores the concepts of belonging, identity, and courage.
This is the true story of Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America. She never identified with her Asian ancestry, but was quickly involved in Asian culture when her birth family contacted her. Lucky Girl is a tale of joy, regret, hilarity, deep sadness, and great discovery.
This is an annotated bibliography that covers adoption literature published from 1990 to 1991 suitable for children and young adults. There are 503 titles in this volume and are divided into fiction and nonfiction by reading level. The bibliography. It encompasses topics including sibling adoption, single-parent adoption, foster parent adoption, transracial and intercountry adoption, racial identity, and much more.
This is an illustrated memoir by a Swedish-Korean adoptee about her life as an adoptee. The author (Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom) explores her feelings related to identity, abandonment, truth, and family. This memoir also details Sjöblom’s journey back to her orphanage in Korea. There, she finds out more about the circumstances surrounding her adoption and realizes that the truth is far more complicated than what she grew up being told.
This is a memoir by Korean-American adoptee Nicole Cheung. She tells the story the search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. This book is a profound chronicle about family, identity, truth, and belonging.
This webpage offers resources on for all aspects of domestic and intercountry adoption, however it focuses on adoption from the US foster care system. It includes information for adoption professionals, adopted adults, prospective adoptive parents, and birth families on a broad range of adoption topics.
A list of intercountry and transracial, adoptee-led, post-adoption services located in the US. It includes search reunion services, counseling and therapy services, mentorship programs, and more.
A documentary following the lives of four teenage girls adopted from China. The film explores their struggles with racism, identity formation, belonging, race, gender, and searching for birth family.
