AKA's Suggested Reading List

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The A.K.A. Book List
Suggested Reading for Adoptees and their Families
Provided by: The Adopted Koreans Association at the University of Michigan
On the Web: http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/aka/
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BOOKS
On Adoption...
• Birth Is More Than Once by Sook Wilkinson
• After The Morning Calm by Sook Wilkinson, Nancy Fox
• I Wish For You’re a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children by Sarah
Dorow (Editor)
• Seeds from a Silent Tree: An Anthology By Korean Adoptees by Tonya Bishoff (Editor), Jo Rankin
• Sacred Connections: Stories of Adoption by Mary Ann Koenig, Niki Berg
• Somebodys Daughter by Marie G. Lee
• How It Feels to Be Adopted by Jill Krementz
• Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall
• Voices From Another Place: a Collection of Works From a Generation Born in Korea and Adopted to Other
Countries by Susan Soon-Keum Cox
• The Other Mother by Carol Schaefer
• The Greatest Gift by Betsy Buckley
• Being Adopted : The Lifelong Search for Self by David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schechter, Robin Marantz Henig
• Adopted from Asia : How It Feels to Grow Up in America by Frances M. Koh

On Parenting...
• Real Parents, Real Children ; Parenting the Adopted Child : Parenting the Adopted Child by Holly Van Gulden, Lisa
M. Bartels-Rabb
• The Family of Adoption by Joyce Maguire Pavao
• Are Those Kids Yours? by Cheri Register
• The Family of Adoption by Joyce Maguire Pavao

For Children and Young Adults...
• If It Hadn’t Been For Yun Jun by Marie G. Lee
• The Mulberry Bird: An Adoption Story by Anne Braff Brodzinsky
• Peach Heaven: by Yangsook Choi
• The Korean Cinderella: by Shirley Climo, Ruth Heller
• Families Are Different: by Nina Pellegrini
• We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo by Linda Walvoord Girard
• The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
• The King's Secret: The Legend of King Sejong by Carol Farley
• Chi-Hoon : A Korean Girl by Patricia McMahon, Michael F. O'Brien On Asian Heritage...
• Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank H. Wu
• Finding My Voice by Marie G. Lee
• Orientalism by Edward Said
• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee
• In the Absence of Sun by Hellie Lee
• Growing Up Asian American by Maria Hong
• Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire by Sonia Shah
• Hearts of the Morning Calm by Galen Kindley
• Echoes of the White Giraffe by Nyul Sook Choi, Sook Nyul Choi
• Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Nyul Sook Choi, Sook Nyul Choi
• Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life&Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother by Hellie Lee
• Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman's Journey into Power by Pheobe Eng
• Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites? : The Asian Ethnic Experience Today by Mia Tuan

ONLINE BLOGS
* The Ethica Blog : http://ethica.ning.com/
* Third Mom : http://thirdmom.blogspot.com/
* Daughter of 2 Women: http://daughterof2women.wordpress.com/
* Twice the Rice : http://twicetherice.wordpress.com/
* AdopteeNation : http://adopteenation.vox.com/