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A Passage to the Heart
Amy Klatzkin
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The articles in A PASSAGE TO THE HEART, taken from FCC (Families with Children from China) chapter newsletters, discuss all aspects of adoption from China. These include: the waiting period, the adoption journey, settling in, health and development, adoption after infancy, single parenting, culture, language, identity, race, going back, birth parents, and much more. By turns funny, moving, practical, and deeply personal, this collection is a treasure trove for those who have or are planning to adopt from China.

 

Adopt International: Everything You Need to Know to Adopt a Child from Abroad
O. Robin Sweet
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A comprehensive guide providing step-by-step advice on everything from selecting an adoption agency to traveling abroad to pick up your child to adjusting to a new home life. The book walks you through the government regulations and forms as well as the financial issues involved.

 

Are Those Kids Yours? American Families With Children Adopted from Other Countries
Cheri Register
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What is involved in becoming an international family? Why are there children available for adoption in other countries? How do these children adapt to a typical American lifestyle? Should you adopt internationally? What should you answer when strangers ask "ARE THOSE KIDS YOURS?" These questions and many more are addressed in this excellent book.

 

Dim sum, Bagels, and Grits: A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families
Myra Alperson
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As the adoptive Jewish mother of a Chinese-born daughter, Alperson is able to offer personal as well as professional insight into such topics as combining cultures in the home, confronting prejudice, and developing role models. Focusing on adoptive families she provides guidelines on how families can prepare for their exciting journey toward becoming a multicultural family. her book includes a wealth of on-line and "conventional" resources to find books, food products, toys, clothing, discussion groups and heritage camps that help families to enhance their lives as they build a multicultural home.

 

I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children
Sara Dorow
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Ae Ran Won is a home for unwed mothers in Seoul, Korea. Most of these women choose adoption for their babies & each is asked to write a letter to her child. This book offers a glimpse at some of these letters , sometimes thick with guilt and loss, but ultimately filled with a powerful message of hope and love.

 

Jacob's Journey: One child's adoption teaches us about our place in God's family
Jeanie Shaw
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The author shares her story of faith and love in the adoption of a Romanian orphan and the insights she gained about God's adoption of his children. Heart-moving and heart-challenging, this book will bring tears and smiles, heartaches and belly laughts.

 

Let's Celebrate Adoption!: A Guide for the Jewish Community
Carolyn Flanders McPherson
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This is one in a series of books based on adoption in different religious communities. It is an introduction to adoption as it touches people of Jewish heritage today and is intended for those considering adoption, who have already adopted, and who wish to encourage and support someone who is adopting.

 

Lost Daughters of China, The: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past
Karin Evans
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Evans weaves together her experience of adopting a Chinese infant with observations about Chinese women's history and that country's restrictive reproductive policies. Borrowing an image from Chinese folklore, Evans conveys herself, her husband, and their daughter as tethered by a red string that yoked them a equally awesome cultural divide.

 

Russian Adoption Handbook, The: How to Adopt a Child from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan
John Maclean
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This book guides you through how the international adoption process works, how to start the process, what you need to know before you go, making the most out of your time in Russia: the inside scoop on customs, hotels, food, and shopping; the children's homes, the courts, and all the questions you'd never think to ask, medical issues, special adoption doctors, and travel requirements; post-adoption procedures and much, much more.

 

Seeds From a Silent Tree: An Anthology by Korean Adoptees
Tonya Bishoff
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Born in one culture, raised in another—assigned new names, families, and identities—thirty men and women write about their experiences of being Korean-born adoptees in America. SEEDS FROM A SILENT TREE is grouped into four sections: Roots Remembered and Imagined, Transplantations, Reunions, and Seeds of Resolution. Some of this material may be inappropriate for children.

 

Viva la Adopcion! A Guide to Adoption for Hispanic Christians and Their Congregations
Carolyn Flanders McPherson
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One in a series of books based on adoption in different religious communities, this guidebook is an introduction to adoption as it touches Hispanic Christians today - those contemplating adoption, those who have adopted, and those who wish to encourage and support someone who is adopting.

 

Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China
Kay Ann Johnson
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Kay Johnson provides an intimate portrait of the complex processes by which, over the past decade, thousands of little Chinese girls have made their way from orphanages in China into adoptive homes overseas. Johnson untangles the complex interactions between these social practices and the governments population policies. She also documents the many unintended consequences, including the overcrowding of orphanages that led China to begin international adoptions.

 

When You Were Born in China: A Memory Book for Children Adopted fromChina
Sara Dorow
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The author has spent 20 years in Asia, 3 of those teaching and studying in China. She managed an East Asian adoption agency for several years. Her book is illustrated with black and white photos of China and tells a story of the beginning of adoption to ending in the US.

 

Children

A China Adoption Story: Mommy, Why Do We Look Different?
Frances Koh
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Four-year-old Laura Shu-Mei was adopted from China when she was an infant. She wonders why she and her parents don't look the same. Her mom explains about Laura's beginnings in China and tells her the story of how she was adopted. With sensitivity and warmth, A CHINA ADOPTION STORY points out that a family is bound by love, regardless of whether or not its members look alike.

 

All Kinds Of Families
Norma Simon
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Children define family on the basis of their own personal experiences. ALL KINDS OF FAMILIES describes many different types of families: two parent, adoptive, single parent, sibling groups, divorced, grandparents, childless, and many others. It shows that families may be different sizes or different ages. As is stated in this book, "A family is always part of you...A family is a special part of your life."

 

Beginnings: How Families Come To Be
Virginia Kroll
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BEGINNINGS is a beautiful book that shows children that there are many wonderful ways to become part of a family. Katherine Grace came in a plane from Korea. Mark's uncle adopted him after his mother died. Nicole lived with her birthmother and then two foster families before being adopted. Ruben grew inside his mother. Habib joined his new family right after he was born.

 

Chinese Eyes
Marjorie Waybill
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In this loving book, a first grader adopted from Korea is teased about her appearance. Though she doesn't understand what CHINESE EYES means, she knows that the comment is meant to be unkind. She is hurt and upset. Her mother explains how her beautiful eyes are both different and the same as everyone else's eyes. This is a sensitive book that will help your child have the strength to understand and overcome prejudicial remarks.

 

Families Are Different
Nina Pellegrini
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Nico was adopted from Korea. Her mom explains that there are many different types of families, every one of them glued together with love. Children can live with one parent or two or sometimes grandparents. They can have stepbrothers and sisters or even parents that don't look like them. Nico happily realizes that all FAMILIES ARE DIFFERENT; and she's just like everybody else.

 

Happy Adoption Day
John McCutcheon
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Pull out the party hats and streamers to celebrate a very special day—the wonderful day when a child joins an adoptive family. This bright, cheerful book shows the joy and love of new parents as they watch their child grow and as they mark each year with a HAPPY ADOPTION DAY celebration. These heartwarming verses reassure adopted children that they are wanted, loved, and very special.

 

Kids Like Me In China
Ying Fry
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Written by an eight-year-old who was adopted from China as a baby, KIDS LIKE ME IN CHINA is the first view of Chinese adoption from a child's perspective. Ying Ying returns to visit her orphanage so that she can remember what it was like. She meets her caregiver and discovers points of connection with the orphanage children. She also makes friends with other children; in their homes, on playgrounds and at school. She wrote her story so that other adopted children would understand their own life story.

 

Mommy Far, Mommy Near
Carol Peacock
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Because Elizabeth was adopted from China, she assumed that all babies came from China. Her mommy explained that babies grow inside their mother and come from every country. She told Elizabeth that she has two mommies, one in China who grew her and one in the United States who adopted her. Since families in China are only allowed to raise one child, they couldn't keep her, even though they loved her very much. The story of MOMMY FAR, MOMMY NEAR reassures children about their adoption from China.

 

Things Little Kids Need To Know
Susan Uhlig
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Many children worry about the coming of a new brother or sister. Will they still have a place in the family? THINGS LITTLE KIDS NEED TO KNOW helps children look forward to a new sibling who is joining the family by adoption. In this book, a little boy describes all the things he will teach his new sister just as soon as she comes home "...from across the world."

 

Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies
Ann Turner
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This Reading Rainbow selection describes a little boy's flight THROUGH MOON AND STARS AND NIGHT SKIES to his new home in America. He's scared at first, but then he recognizes some things from the pictures he was sent—his new parents, the white house, the green tree, and the red dog. The illustrations are charming in this delightful book for the younger reader.

 

We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo
Linda Walvoord Girard
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Benjamin Koo, nine, narrates his own story: his birth mother left him at an orphanage in Korea when he was only a few days old; and, in America, his adoptive parents were longing to have a child and were just waiting for one to become available. In a childlike yet carefully organized way the author has Benjamin lay out all the details of adoption that children, adopted or not, want to know. Benjamin also confides his worries and wonderings: Why did his birth mother leave him, and what does being in a family really mean? Finally, Benjamin offers wise counsel: "You might have been born somewhere else or look different from your parents, but that has noth ing to do with love." Ages 7-11.

 

When You Were Born In Korea: A Memory Book For Children Adopted from Korea
Brian Boyd
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Children adopted abroad often wonder what life was like before they came to America. Who took care of them when they were little? How did they come to leave their birthmother? Why were they available for adoption? Where did they live? What was daily life like in an orphanage? How was their adoption arranged? How did they get to America? WHEN YOU WERE BORN IN KOREA answers all these questions and more. This book belongs in the home of every family with a child adopted from Korea. It is sure to become a keepsake.

 

When You Were Born In Vietnam
Therese Bartlett
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Speaking directly to adopted children; this book offers a clear and straightforward explanation of how children in Vietnam are placed for adoption. WHEN YOU WERE BORN IN VIETNAM lets them understand the culture, accompany a child to the orphanage, witness the loving care that is given there, and follow the journey through to placement in a new, forever family. Families waiting to adopt from Vietnam will be especially delighted with this book, as they gain a fuller understanding of the joy that waits for them across the ocean.

 

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