The following books are strongly recommended for individuals pursuing a first, second or third adoption! Reading will help you prepare for your adoption as well as parenting your adopted child through life. You may purchase the books for your home library (and may find yourself keeping them as a handy reference for years), or they are all available through your local library.

Parenting With Love and Logic : Teaching Children Responsibility.  Foster Cline, MD and Jim Fay.

Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent. Lois Ruskai Melina

Adopting the Hurt Child : Keck & Kupecky

Attaching In Adoption : Deborah Gray  

Helping Children Cope With Separation and Loss, Revised Edition :  Claudia Jewett  

Parenting From the Inside Out : Daniel Siegel  

Parenting the Hurt Child : Keck & Kupecky   

Touchpoints: Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development : T. Berry Brazelton

Toddler Adoption, The Weaver's Craft : Mary Hopkins-Best  

With Eyes Wide Open: A Workbook for Parents Adopting International Children Over Age One :
Margi Miller and Nancy Ward (Available at www.childrenshomeadopt.org)