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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 4 books in this booklist

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  My Name Is Why: A Memoir - by Lemn Sissay

  £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786892362 | ISBN 10: 1786892367

  How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This story is how.  At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth c ... more

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  My Name Is Why: A Memoir - by Lemn Sissay

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  My Name Is Why: A Memoir

  by Lemn Sissay

  
  

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  Red Dust Road - by Jackie Kay

  £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509858392 | ISBN 10: 1509858393

  'What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn't make it up.'  From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing ... more

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  Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? - by Jeanette Winterson

  £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099556091 | ISBN 10: 009955609x

  The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.   In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted b ... more

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  Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew - by Sherrie Eldridge

  £13.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780440508380 | ISBN 10: 044050838x

  With nearly 174,000 copies in print since its initial publishing in 1999, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew is now newly repackaged for its 10 year anniversary, and is a must-read for anyone involved in the adoption process, ... more

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  Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew - by Sherrie Eldridge

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