Books About Foster Care

We invite you to search the Wisconsin Family Connections Center Resource Library for the titles listed below. You can also check at your local public library or your favorite bookseller.

Adults:

  • The Connected Child, by Dr. Karen Purvis
  • The Little Book of Foster Care Wisdom: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement for Foster Care Families, by Dr. John DeGarmo
  • Who’s On Your Circle: Helping kids build healthy relationships, by Nicole Milliren
  • Dancing with a Porcupine: Parenting wounded children without losing your self , by Jennie Owens
  • Fostering Love: One Foster Parent’s Journey, by Dr. John DeGarmo
  • Self-Care for Foster and Adoptive Families, by Sharla Kostelyk

Teens/Young Adults:

  • Keeping It Secret: Teens Write About Foster Care Stigma, by Youth Communication
  • Hot Stones & Funny Bones: Teens Helping Teens Cope with Stress & Anger, by Brian Luke Seaward and Linda K. Bartlett
  • Flux: Life After Foster Care, by Leigh Ecke
  • Succeeding as a Foster Child: A Roadmap to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Success, by Jamie Schwandt
  • Orbiting Jupiter, by Gary D. Schmidt

Children:

  • Fostering and Adoption (Let’s Talk About), by Sarah Levete
  • Robbie’s Trail Through Foster Care, by Adam Robe
  • Help A Hamster: Helping Children to Understand Fostering and Adoption, by Hilary Robinson
  • The Courageous Cubs: A story of hope for foster children and children in disrupted homes, by Patty Wright Klingensmith
  • I Am a Foster Child, and That’s Okay with Me, by Kimberly J. Snodgrass
  • Just for Now: Kids and the People of the Court, by Kimberly Morris
  • Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care, by Jennifer Wilgocki and Marcia Kahn Wright
  • Home for A While, by Lauren H. Kerstein
  • No Matter What – A Foster Care Tale, by Josh Shipp with David Tieche

Additional titles (not vetted):

  • Love You From Right Here: A Keepsake Book for Children in Foster Care, by Jamie Sandefer and Pamela Goodman
  • Far From the Tree, by Andrew Solomon
  • What I Carry, by Jennifer Longo
  • Returnable Girl, by Pamela Lowell