This Resource Library is a collection of books, tapes, and DVDs, as well as instantly downloadable items, such as newsletters and tip sheets. You will find a wide variety of topics related to foster care, kinship caregiving, adoption, and more.

Wisconsin families and professionals are welcome to check out physical materials from our library for free (electronic items are available to all for free and on demand). The requested materials will be shipped to you with a postage-paid return envelope. You can help us serve more people by sending along a check for the amount of postage, if possible. You may check out four (4) items at a time and keep them for three (3) weeks.

Questions? Comments? Please e-mail info@wifamilyconnectionscenter.org

The Hate U Give

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds – the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered […]

Orbiting Jupiter

When Jack meets his new foster brother, he already knows three things about him: Joseph almost killed a teacher. He was incarcerated at a place called Stone Mountain. He has […]

Battle-Weary Parents

In the midst of the storm, when it rains, it pours. Sometimes the only way to survive is to drop your umbrella and dance in the rain.  From the moment […]

Pictures of Hollis Woods

Hollis Woods is the place where a baby was abandoned is the baby’s name is an artist is now a twelve-year-old girl who’s been in so many foster homes she […]

Somebody Else’s Daughter

Somebody Else’s Daughter is a literary page-turner peopled with fascinating and disturbing characters. In the idyllic Berkshires, at the prestigious Pioneer School, there are dark secrets that threaten to come to […]

Far From the Tree

Solomon’s startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, […]