Historical Fiction Adoption

Meet the Laments—the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen’s exuberant debut novel. Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto “Laments move!” His wife Julia is a fiery spirit who must balance her husband’s oddly...

A white family adopts a small black child and then, because they are fearful of what will happen in their small town, make a terrible decision.

A tiny-but-mighty little mouse faces down an incoming storm to protect her home. A tribute to courage and the rugged beauty of Cape Cod from Newbery Honor-winning author Lauren Wolk. The Outermost Mouse loves her life at the tip of the beach. She has blue sky above and sand as warm and soft as...

This audiobook is about a 10-year-old Jewish girl, an orphan, who was sent into hiding alone in the forest in Russia. She survived through World War II and lived to tell us her amazing true story. This memoir will inspire you and bestow important lessons about life, hope, and memory.

From award-winning author Elizabeth Byler Younts comes a luminous and heartbreaking historical novel about resilience, friendship, and the search for belonging--perfect for readers of Susan Meissner and Katherine Reay. "Younts's successor to The Solace of Water (2018) has an enthralling...

From the bestselling author of The Carousel and Daybreak comes a stirring, timely story of adultery and its impact on the American family. Margaret and Adam Crane seem to have a near perfect life--she's a teacher, he's a computer executive, and together they are lovingly...

A deeply moving and heartfelt story about a Korean woman who returns to Seoul to unravel the mystery of her origins, thirty-five years after she was found abandoned as a child at a train station. Before she was named Nana by a French couple who adopted her as a child, she was Esther Pak, a girl...