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Browse the newest additions to our library.

  • Wonderfully You: An Ode to Adoption

  • Sullivan Goes To See Mama

  • When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology

  • I have Two Families: A Children’s Book About Adoption

  • See No Color

  • We’re All Not the Same, But We’re Still Family: An Adoption and Birth Family Story

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KinKonnect in partnership with the New Jersey Adoption Clearing House (NJ ARCH) maintains an extensive library of books and videos. Borrowing from the library is simple, convenient and offered at no cost to NJ residents. 

Here’s how it works: Browse the collection and select the items you wish to borrow. Place the items in your cart, and fill out the required shipping information. The items will be shipped to you by USPS with a return shipping label provided for your convenience. Lending period is 4 weeks.
For best search results, we recommend selecting the “Advanced Search” to view the “audience” and “topic” selections. 
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A Practical Guide: Transracial Adoption

“The step-by-step playbook to raising confident, empowered, and loved transracial adoptees.” Written by adoptee and advocate Isaac Etter, more

Isaac Etter
Julie Etter

A Search to My Beginning

"Joan M. Battilana is a wife, mother, and grandmother. All her life she has known she was adopted. Joan was born in Farmington, NM to a single, young mother who... more

Battilana, Joan

A Single Square Picture

Having only a picture to guide her, Katy tells of her personal journey to find her birth mother in Korea. Feeling like an American outsider in her native land, ... more

Robinson, Katy

A Terrible Thing Happened

This gently told and tenderly illustrated story is for children who have witnessed any kind of violent or traumatic episode, including physical abuse, school or... more

Holmes, Margaret M.

A Time To Grieve

This book discusses the stages of grief and loss in a most compassionate way.

Simos, Bertha G.

A Volcano in my Tummy

"Children often have problems with anger. Teachers and parents often have problems with anger. Why? Because we're afraid of anger. It may mean that someone ... more

Whitehouse, Eliane
Pudney, Warwick

A Workbook about Taking Care of ME!

Victimization in childhood can take many forms including physical, verbal and emotional hurts, and it can happen to boys and girls of all ages and all religious... more

Stauffer, Lori, PhD
Deblinger, Esther, PhD

Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me

Adoption is often painted as a happy, inspirational act—a baby finds a family and lives happily ever after. But the truth is that adopted children experience ... more

Janet Sherlund

ABC A Family Alphabet Book

Have fun with the kids, moms, dads, and pets in this delightful book that celebrates alternative families as it teaches young children the alphabet.

Combs, Bobbie

ABC Adoption & Me: A Multicultural Picture Book (Revised & Re-illustrated)

Award-winning book that recently earned acclaim from the prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Awards!" The original version of this book launched in 2013. It ... more

Gayle Swift
Casey Swift
Wesley Blauvelt
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