Adoption Literature for Children and Young Adults: An Annotated Bibliography

ISBN-13: 9780313276064 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Publication date: 11/21/1991 Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in Sociology , #21 Pages: 232 Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d) This extensive annotated bibliography covers the literature published since 1900 suitable for children and young adults dealing in some fashion with adoption. The 503 titles annotated in this volume are divided into fiction and nonfiction by reading level. A comprehensive subject, as well as title and author index, assures access to the books cited within the bibliography. Although most of the books included feature adoption as a main theme, others use adoption as a secondary theme, while others have characters who just happen to be adopted. The lengthy annotations will allow the readers an opportunity to evaluate each title's usefulness.The bibliography encompasses such topics as the age of arrival, sibling adoption, single-parent adoption, foster parent adoption, step-parent and relative ad