book recommendations for transracial adoptive families Archives - Transracial Journeys https://www.transracialjourneys.org/blog/tag/book-recommendations-for-transracial-adoptive-families/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 01:34:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-Logo-Flare520x520-32x32.jpg book recommendations for transracial adoptive families Archives - Transracial Journeys https://www.transracialjourneys.org/blog/tag/book-recommendations-for-transracial-adoptive-families/ 32 32 Book Corner – March 2025 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/blog/book-corner-march-2025/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 01:29:59 +0000 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/?p=5181 Blended by Sharon Draper Grades 4-7 Told from the perspective of an 11 year old, whose parents are divorced, Izzy / Isabella relays her experiences being shuttled between both parents’ homes (she can’t call either house her home). Her mother is white and her father is Black and not much is ever said to her about being two different races until a racist event (targeted at her close friend) happens at school. Suddenly, Izzy is forced to “check the box” read more

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]]> Book Corner – February 2025 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/blog/book-corner-february-2025/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:37:35 +0000 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/?p=5165 All Ways Black Cree Myles, Curator of All Ways Black Instead of one book and author this month, we’re sharing a robust resource from Penguin Random House.  All Ways Black is a year-round celebration of Black authors and stories, a place to honor the depth and breadth of experiences around what it means to be Black. This is a community dedicated to Black literature – reading, sharing, living, and loving it. All Ways Black aims to help you discover incredible read more

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]]> Book Corner – January 2025 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/blog/book-corner-january-2025/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:13:39 +0000 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/?p=5113 Somewhere Sisters: a Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family by Erika Hayasaki Ages: Adult Vietnamese twins Loan and Ha were separated when they were babies.  Ha was raised by her aunt in a loving home in rural Vietnam.  Loan was adopted, renamed Isabella, and grew up in a loving home in a Chicago suburb.  Isabella’s American family weren’t told their daughter was a twin, and when they found out, Isabella’s mom started to search for Ha.  After read more

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]]> Making and Breaking Traditions: https://www.transracialjourneys.org/blog/making-breaking-traditions/ Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:50:34 +0000 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/?p=5089 As the year draws to a close, it’s a perfect time to reflect on the traditions we hold dear and consider how we shape new ones to honor the diversity within our families. This month, we are thrilled to share our 2024-2025 Bibliography for the Giving Season and All Year Long, a curated collection of books that celebrate stories of identity, culture, and connection. This guide is a testament to the power of books in fostering understanding, self-discovery, and belonging for read more

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]]> Book Corner – August 2024 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/blog/book-corner-august-2024/ Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:27:47 +0000 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/?p=4844 Reviewed by Bear Howe, TRJ white adoptive parent The Connected Parent by Karyn Purvis, Lisa Qualls and Emmelie Pickett Adult Nonfiction The Connected parent offers a framework for parenting called Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). TBRI is an attachment-based and trauma-informed approach designed to support the complex needs of children with histories of trauma. This framework focuses on three core principles: empowerment, connection and correction, and first asks parents do their own inner work of healing and introspective processing in order read more

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]]> Book Corner – July 2024 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/blog/book-corner-july-2024/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 17:01:53 +0000 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/?p=4695 By Becca Howe, TRJ Parent Book Corner – Brooke Randolph: It’s Not About You Understanding Adoptee Search, Reunion, & Open Adoption It’s Not About You: Understanding Adoptee Search, Reunion, & Open Adoption is a book written for adoptive and birth parents and their therapists. After repetitive conversations with adopted persons (and sometimes their parents) about reactions to their search and reunion, Brooke knew adoptive and parents of origin needed a book on the topic.   Brooke is a therapist, author, speaker, trainer and read more

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]]> Black Excellence – Isaac Etter https://www.transracialjourneys.org/blog/black-excellence-isaac-etter/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:33:12 +0000 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/?p=4691 By Becca Howe, TRJ Parent This month we are combining our Black Excellence and Book Corner featuring Isaac Etter.  Isaac is a transracially adopted person and a social entrepreneur who founded Identity, a startup focused on helping adoptive and foster families thrive. At Identity, Isaac is working on re-imagining post-placement support for adoptive and foster families. He uses his story and deep passion for adoption and foster care education to bring relevant, quality, and diverse resources to adoptive and foster read more

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]]> Book Corner – June 2024 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/blog/book-corner-june-2024/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:15:22 +0000 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/?p=4620 By Kristen Perry, transracial adoptive parent and professor of literacy education Max and the Tag-Along Moon, by Floyd Cooper Floyd Cooper’s picture book, Max and the Tag-Along Moon, is the perfect story to celebrate all the fathers, grandfathers, and other father-figures in our children’s lives. It is a wonderful ode to the love between a grandfather and grandson and to the things that connect us to each other, even across distances. In this sweet story, Max is sad to be read more

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]]> Book Corner – May 2024 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/blog/book-corner-may-2024/ Tue, 07 May 2024 19:34:31 +0000 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/?p=4589 Reviewed by Rebecca Howe Monstrous, by Sarah Myer  Monstrous is a young adult graphic novel memoir written and illustrated by nonbinary comic artist and transracial adoptee Sarah Myer. The story is about Myer's childhood years in the 1990s and early 2000s in rural Maryland, taking us from an imaginative and emotionally explosive early childhood, through an adolescence rife with bullying, racism, homophobia, ableism, mental health struggles and the protagonist's reckoning with identity, how to stick up for themselves, take responsibility read more

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]]> Book Corner – March 2024 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/blog/book-corner-march-2024/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 22:01:22 +0000 https://www.transracialjourneys.org/?p=4457 Reviewed by Kristen Perry, TRJ Parent In the Key of Us By Mariama Lockington Not only is In the Key of Us by Mariama Lockington written by a transracial adoptee, but it also is a Stonewall Honor Book for LGBTQ+ books. Thus, it has the power to speak to many identities represented within our families and communities. The story is told through the alternating perspectives of Andi and Zora, the only two Black girls at a prestigious, nearly all-white music read more

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