Inspirational/Poetry

Adult

A Ghost at Heart's Edge

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A collection of literature, which goes to the heart of adoption through poetry, song, and story.

 

Perspectives On a Grafted Tree: Thoughts for Those Touched by Adoption
Patricia Johnston
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PERSPECTIVES ON A GRAFTED TREE is a beautiful and moving poetry collection about adoption. These illustrated poems describe the blend of gain and loss, happiness and pain, which are all part of the adoption experience. It was written by adoptees, birthparents, members of adoptive families, adoption professionals, and others. It includes such well-known poems as Legacy of an Adopted Child and Not Flesh of my Flesh. This is a book for everyone whose life has been touched adoption. It makes a wonderful, caring gift.

 

Swings Hanging From Every Tree
Susan Stone
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We all need to hear just the right words, words to bring confidence, a sense of calm, a smile or even laughter. SWINGS HANGING FROM EVERY TREE contains those words of advice, validation, blessing and grace that we all need to hear on a daily basis. This sensitive collection of encouraging and inspirational experiences is from and for foster and adoptive parents and also for those who care for them and their families.

 

Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity
Natasha Tarpley
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In TESTIMONY for the first time young Afircan-Americans express their own understandings of their generation's shared experiences from racism in school to the politics of hair. Through their compelling poetry and prose these student writers claim identities from fragmented lives, embrace themselves, and resurrect their spirits.

 

Children

I Like Being Me: Poems for Children About Feeling Special, Appreciating Others, and Getting Along
Judy Lalli
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Short yet sweet poems teach values to young kids, while the companion Leaders Guide helps adults make the impression last.

 

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Who Will Cry for the Little Boy?
Antwone Fisher
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Fisher reveals the inner truths that took him from a tumultous childhood to the man he is today. The powerful poems presented here range from impressions and expressions of Fisher's years growing up to the love that he has gained from the family he made for himself as an adult.

 

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