 | Cross Cultural Adoption: How To Answer Questions from Family, Friends & Community by Amy Coughlin
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $2.17 This one has questions that WILL be asked of you. It provides short practical answers with positive adoption language for you to put into use immediately. Quick read.
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 | Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child by Holly Van Gulden
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.96 Holly Van Gulden is an excellent speaker on adoption topics. I love her information about lifebooks and life story. She gives great advice about how to communicate with your kids about these sometimes difficult topics.
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 | The Complete Book of International Adoption: A Step by Step Guide to Finding Your Child by Dawn Davenport
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.13 Basic guide to all aspects of international adoption.
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 | Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents by Deborah D. Gray
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.06 A top recommended resource to help parents begin the bonding and attachment process with their children.
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 | Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft by Mary Hopkins-Best
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.48 This book will always be mentioned in discussions about attachment. Hopkins-Best weaves her own story of adoption of a toddler and how she learned to helped her son attach to his parents.
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 | I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World by Marguerite Wright
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.99 This is a book that is not necessarily written to adoptive parents, but for those who are Caucasian and adopting a child who is Black, this book gives you much insight into how to navigate choices for your kids such as what type of school environments will help a child develop a healthy racial identity.
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 | Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib by Jaiya John
Buy new: $13.26 / Used from: $10.94 My husband has read this book, not me. From what I understand, this is hard look at the mistakes well meaning parents can make when they ignore the race of a child. It is written from the point of view of the adoptee.
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 | Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.03 The author is an adoptee herself. I have heard her speak and her story is really moving. She is speaking from experience here, and I think we as parents should listen.
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 | Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens by Debbie Riley
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $19.94 Debbie Riley has been working with adolescents for many years and has focused on adopted teens in her work. This book is one of the only books written specially about this age group. I heard her speak on this topic as well. I have only begun to read this one but I am positive it will be a huge help when we hit this stage of life with our child.
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 | Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent by Lois Ruskai Melina
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $0.01 This is one that is on my list to read, but has been recommended highly by others.
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