LibGuides: Curated Lists 2021: Adoption Month

eBooks & Audiobooks

You Have a Match by Emma Lord
Publication Date: 2021
Abby signs up for a DNA service and discovers she has a secret sister, Savannah, who’s an Instagram star. They meet up at summer camp and try to figure out why Savannah was given up for adoption.
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Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Publication Date: 2017
Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which poor children were kidnapped and sold to wealthy families—Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.
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Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
Publication Date: 2017
Despite being happy with his adoptive family, Saroo always wondered about his origins. Google Earth led him to pore over satellite images of India for landmarks he might recognize. And one day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for and set off on a journey to find his mother.
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Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Publication Date: 2013
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, or would they face a childhood and adolescence of hard labor and servitude?
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Films

Approved for Adoption (2012)

This award-winning animated documentary traces the unconventional upbringing of filmmaker Jung Henin, a Korean child adopted by a Western family after the end of the Korean War. (75mins)

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My Brother (2018)

My Brother follows a single unmarried woman, Gabriela, as she and her adoptive son, Alexey, decide to adopt a second boy, Mateo. (72mins)

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