A Forever Family
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Publication Year
1992
ISBN
9780064461160
Pages
44 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Nonfiction
Annotation
Eight-year-old Jennifer Jordan-Wong describes her adoption by a family after four years of living as a foster child with many different families.
Grade Level
K-3, 3-5
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Adoption; Foster care; Interracial; adoptive family; adopted child; foster families; foster child; interracial marriage; interracial family; interracial/transracial adoption
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
Asian / White
Family Formation
adoptive parents
Awards
Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for PreK-Grade 6, Tenth Edition, 1993
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
Keywords
family; case studies; older child adoption; photo essay; social services
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Banish, Roslyn and Jordan-Wong, Jennifer, "A Forever Family" (1992). Diverse Families. 12.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/12