History HappilyAdopted / Literature

* Achim in ''Literature/TheAdoptiveRoom'' by Antonia Michaelis. Played halfway with Karl Sonntag from another book ([[spoiler: he finds his father, and is quite happy with his stepmother]].

** [[spoiler:Theon Greyjoy eventually has this realization in ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons'', after enduring a brutal and relentless torture by Ramsay Snow and reflecting all he has done. Despite spending most of ''Literature/AClashOfKings'' denigrating them, Theon muses that he loves the Starks, wants to be a Stark, and doesn't consider his decade-long fostering by them to be a burden. Most of all, he wants to apologize to his sworn brother, Robb Stark, even though he is dead by that point.]]

* This is the final happy ending for several of the characters in the ''Literature/TheMysteriousBenedictSociety'' books:

* In the ''Literature/TheSaxonStories'' Uthred and Brida end up being adopted by Ragnar the Fearless, who turns out to be quite the loving father.

* Rani of the ''Literature/{{Mermaids}}'' trilogy. Even when she does find her biological family, she decides to stay with her adoptive family.

** ''Literature/JediApprentice'' outlines that Jedi give up their birthrights and sever connections to their birth parents when they're picked to come to the Temple. The Temple becomes home, the Jedi become family, the invisible ties of loyalty to blood become the ties of duty to TheForce. Really young children are taken if the visiting Jedi wants them and the parents agree; slightly older ones have to agree, too. Most are happy to be Jedi, and it's rare for children of Padawan age to spontaneously even think of their origins, though there are plenty of cases of Jedi who adorn themselves as their people do. That doesn't mean this trope isn't occasionally subverted. Individually, Jedi can't own property, be part of a government, marry, or pick sides without regarding the big picture. They're raised to accept all that, but sometimes one becomes discontent.

* ''Literature/{{Starburst}}'' features an unofficially version of this, when retired filmmaker Leonard Hartson affirms to others that he sees his new assistant T.K. as the grandson he never had, with T.K. clearly reciprocating Leonard’s warm regard for him.

* In ''[[Literature/TheReformedVampireSupportGroup The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group]],'' Toby is a bit of a MommasBoy, and the fact that he was adopted is only mentioned briefly. In this setting werewolves are {{Magical Seventh Son}}s from certain families; Toby was raised as an old child, but is vaguely aware that his birth mother had other children.

* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', the Cullen family basically adopts each new member. The cover story used when the story begins is that the high-schoolers are all adopted children. Nevertheless, Carlisle and Esme consider the rest of their family as their own kids, and the others all regard them as parents.