Books for Adopted Teenagers
Rodzina, by Karen Cushman (Newberry
Medal Winner),
Clarion Books. Fiction
Rodzina is a parentless Polish American girl forced to travel from
Chicago to California on an "orphan train" in 1881. Rodzina isn't sure
she wants a new family, yet this 12-year-old refuses to show fear to
her seemingly callous chaperones and the ragtag pack of waifs who share
her plight.
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Hollis Woods, by Patricia Reilly Giff, Wendy Lamb
Books (Random House Publishers), 2002.
Fiction
Hollis, a twelve-year-old orphan, has been sent from foster home to
foster home due to her behavior. When she finally finds a family she
loves and who loves her, she makes a big mistake.
Heaven, by Angela Johnson, Simon
& Schuster, 1998. Coretta Scott King Award.
Fiction
Marley is fourteen and loves her family and her
neighbors in the town of Heaven. Ever since she can remember, she has
had the responsibility to take money to the store and wire it to her
Uncle Jack. Then one day, a letter from someone unfamiliar to her
arrives for her mother and father. The letter is a prompt to tell
Marley the truth about Uncle Jack. Suddenly Marley’s life is changed
forever.
I See the
Moon, by C.B.
Christiansen, Simon & Schuster—Aladdin Paperbacks, 1994.
Fiction
12-year-old Bitte’s older sister is pregnant and has chosen a couple to
parent her baby after it is born. Bitte has a difficult time
understanding this; she wants the family to keep “Isabella,” as she has
privately named the baby. When the baby is born, her birth mom
and family, and her new parents are at the hospital to receive her and
surround her with love.
When Nothing
Matters Anymore, A
survival
Guide
for Depressed Teens by Bev Cobain
Bev Cobain, a psychiatric nurse, is cousin to Nirvana's lead singer
Kurt Cobain, who killed himself in 1994 after years of struggling with
depression and addiction. She has devoted her life to teaching teens
about depression, suicide and depression-related substance abuse. In
this book, This is an excellent book for teens to learn about
their depression diagnosis.
So your
Adopted, Fred
Powledge, 1982, (13). Answers to questions teenagers have about
adoption by an adult adoptee.
