Summer is almost over. Are you looking forward to the kids going back to school, dreading the ending of beautiful summer weather, or a combination of both? For me it’s both.

If you have a vacation coming up yet this summer, maybe you’d like a good book to read. I have a knack for stumbling across adoption themed books, even when I don’t mean to. Sometimes I will actively go searching for adoption themed books though.

My day is so filled with “work” helping parents, conference planning, parenting, and various other things, that the last thing I want to do when I do get a chance to sit down would be to read a “heavy work related” book. Right now I have several sitting and waiting for me. Daniel Seigel’s “Parenting from the Inside Out” has received rave reviews from many people I know, but I just haven’t made the time to read it yet. There are also several books with blog topics and statistics that await my attention, and the book by Deborah Hannah “An Unlit Path” that Nancy and Cindy both loved.

I wind my day down by reading fiction for at least 15 minutes. It’s the only way I can get my brain to shut down to be able to sleep.

I wrote a book review on a Karen Kingsbury book called “Like Dandelion Dust” This is not the only book she has written on adoption. She also wrote the book “Found” in which in a couple is searching for a child they placed for adoption.

If you’re at all familiar with Jacquelyn Mitchard, she has written an adoption themed book called “Theory of Relativity”. In this book a man wants to adopt his niece after his sister is killed, but the judge rules that he is not a blood relative and awards custody to a biological family member. This is based on a true story. Ms. Mitchard is also a fellow Wisconsinite, which is reason enough to read her books.

Typing “adoption fiction” into the Amazon.com search engine yields 451 results. I don’t think I’ll list them all. You can peruse them at your leisure.

If all else fails, you can flip open the latest Harry Potter book. He is an orphan who, by all accounts, should have attachment issues, but Lord Voldemort most certainly does!

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