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from home to HOMELAND
What Adoptive Families Need to Know
before Making a Return Trip to China
edited by Debra Jacobs, Iris Chin Ponte, and Leslie Kim Wang
Published by
Yeong & Yeong Book Company
For Adults

from home to HOMELAND is a thoughtful collection of essays written by China
adoptive parents, adoptees, social workers, therapists, medical doctors and
researchers. Beginning with
Getting Ready: Preparing Children and Families for
the Trip
, and proceeding through chapters on Choosing Group or Independent
Travel
, Making Connections in China, Extending the Trip: Living in China
Temporarily
, and Home Again: Lasting Impact of the Trip, the book provides a
wraparound experience for adoptive families pondering a return visit to their
children's birth country...

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The Dragon's Daughters Return
by Virginia Cornue
Published by
Thimbleberry Press
All Ages

Personable, friendly and down-to-earth, The Dragon's Daughters
Return
follows a group of China adoptive families through a
"root-seeking summer camp" homeland visit sponsored by the
Chinese government. Gorgeously illustrated with full-color
photographs, the book captures the essence of a group heritage tour
with pics of what you literally do witness on a trip back...

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Two NEW books on China Homeland Travel!
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By Jean MacLeod