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Buy books from Amazon.com and assist FCC-Houston

There are a number of excellent internet sites for purchasing books about adoption, China, Asian cultures, parenting, child development, and so on. You can help support FCC-Houston by making your purchases at Amazon.com. FCC-Houston gets a 5 percent commission on any book ordered (on any subject) when you click on the Amazon.com link below. Furthermore, if you select one of the books listed below, we receive a 15 percent commission. (Please note that for FCC-Houston to get the 15 percent commission, you must click on the book title from our web site. That means that if you want to order more than one of the book titles and want FCC-Houston to benefit, you need to return to this page for each order and click on the desired book.) Otherwise, FCC-Houston will receive only a 5 percent commission on the second book.

Featured books include:

Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter by Joan Siegel and Joel Solonche
Authors' proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Chinese orphanages.

Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett (Illustrator)
Reading Level: ages 4 to 8.

Intercountry Adoption from China: Examining Cultural Heritage and Other Postadoption Issues
by Jay W. Rojewski and Jacy L. Rojewski

Kids Like Me in China
by Ying Ying Fry, Amy Klatzkin

Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China by Emily Prager

The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past by Karin Evans

A Passage to the Heart: Writings from Families with Children from China by Amy Klatzkin

West Meets East by Richard C. Tessler, Gail Gamache, Liming Liu, and Liming Lui

Our Baby from China : An Adoption Story by Nancy D'Antonio

Also, check out the latest books from Amazon.com relating to....
Adoption & China  |   Adoption & Parenting   |   Women & China  |  Children & China

Buying books from amazon.com is an easy way to support the programs and services FCC-Houston provides. When you shop the internet for books, please consider the benefits to FCC-Houston of buying through our link to amazon.com. SUBSCRIBE TO ADOPTIVE FAMILIES AND ASSIST FCC-HOUSTON! You can subscribe to Adoptive Families magazine, one of the nation's leading magazines for pre- and post-adoptive families, and assist FCC-Houston at the same time. For each subscription to the magazine, FCC-Houston will receive a $5 contribution from the publisher.

Each issue of Adoptive Families provides information, personal stories, columns, and articles from leading adoption professionals. With your subscription you'll also receive, free, a "Best of Adoptive Families" booklet, an outstanding collection of the last decade's best articles in Adoptive Families magazine.

You may subscribe in either of two ways:
  • Subscribe online at the Adoptive Families website and type "FCC-Houston Offer-P09023" in the Comments window; or,
  • Call 1.800.372.3300 and mention the code P09023 to ensure that FCC-Houston receives the donation.

Other adoption-related books

Books for children:
  • A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
  • Carolyn’s Story: A Book About an Adopted Girl by Perry Schwartz
  • Eyes Like Mine by Kay Bratt
  • How I was Adopted by Joanna Cole
  • I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose A. Lewis
  • I Wished for You: An Adoption Story by Marianne Richmond
  • Linlin the Little Panda Bear by Krista L Dolan
  • Lin Yi's Lantern, A Moon Festival Tale by Brenda Williams
  • Maya's Journey Home by Susan E. Lindsley & Tina L. Christiansen
  • Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis
  • The Red Thread by Grace Lin
  • The White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption by Jean Davies Okimoto

If you would like to add more adoption-related books to our lists, please email fcchouston@gmail.com.




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