F3 Lending Library provides helpful books for fostering families
Fostering parents enrolled in our F3 Program are able to check out books which can be delivered during home visits. You can also come to the Evansville office to check those out at any time.
Books Available
Adoptive Parent Intentional Parent; A Formula for Building and Maintaining Your Child’s Safety Net, Stacey Mannig
Why I Chose You 100 Reasons Why Adopting You Made Us a Family, Gregory E. Lang
Adopting the Hurt Child Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids, Gregory C. Keck, PhD; Regina M. Kupecky, LSW
Parenting the Hurt Child Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow, Gregory C. Keck, PhD; Regina M. Kupecky, LSW
Parenting Adopted Adolescents, Gregory C. Keck, PhD
No-Drama Discipline The Whole Brain Way to Calm the Choas and Nuture your
Child’s Developing Mind, Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.; Tina Payne Bryson, PhD
The Connected Child For Parents Who Have Welcomed Children; From other countries, from Troubled backgrounds, with special Behavioral or emotional needs, KarynB. Purvis PhD; David R. Cross, PhD; Wendy Lyons Sunshine
Welcoming a New Brother or Sister Through Adoption, Arleta James
Childhood Disrupted; How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal, Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Becoming Home; Adoption, Foster Care, and Mentoring – Living Out God’s Heart for Orphans, Jedd Medefind
Victor’s Dream, Deborah Ehler Polston
You Hold Me Up, Monique Gray Smith & Danielle Daniel
No Matter What A Foster Care Tale, Josh Shipp with David Tieche
Hair Love, Matthew A. Cherry
Narwhal Unicorn of The Sea, Ben Clanton
The Great Behavior Breakdown, Bryan Post
From Fear to Love Your Essential Guide to Parenting Adopted and Foster Children, B. Bryan Post
Beneath The Mask Understanding Adopted Teens, Debbie Riley, LCMFT with John Meeks, M.D.
No Such Thing As A Bad Kid; Understanding and Responding to the Challenging Behavior of Troubled Children and Youth, Charles D. Applestein, MSW
A Terrible Thing Happened, Margarent M. Holmes
The Star; A Story to help young children understand foster care, Cynthia Miller Lovell
Hush; Moving From Silence To Healing After Childhood, Nicole Braddock Bromley
Reframing Foster Care; Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through The Lens of The Gospel, Jason Johnson
I Don’t Have Your Eyes, Carrie A Kitze
Therapeutic Parenting; Its A Matter of Attitude!, Deborah Hage, MSW
The Parent’s Desk Reference; The Ultimate Family Encyclopedia from Conception to College, Irene Franck and David Brownstone
Don’t Touch My Heart; Healing The Pain Of An Unattached Child, Lyndia Gianforte Mansfield and Christopher H. Waldmann, MA, LPC
Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss, Claudia L. Jewett
Foster Care Solutions; Practical Tools for Foster Parents, Lana Temple-Plotz, M.S.; Ted P. Stricklett, M.S.; Christena B. Baker, M.S.W.; and Micheal N. Sterba, M.H.D.
Oh, Shift For Teens: Get control of Your Life With a Little F’ In Shift, Jennifer Powers and Mark Tucker
Surviving Adolescence: Helping Your Child Through The Struggle To Adulthood, Larry Dumont, M.D.
There’s Gotta Be A Better Way: Discipline That Works!, Dr. Becky Bailey
Family Trust, Amanda Brown
Three Little Words; A Memoir, Ashley Rhodes- Courter
Another Place At The Table, Kathy Harrison
Brothers and Sisters in Adoption; Helping Children Navigate Relationships When
New Kids Join the Family, Arleta James
Forever or a Long Long Time, Caela Carter
The Tiger’s Child; Sequel to One Child, Torey Hayden
Pictures of Hollis Woods, Patricia Rilly Giff
On The Edge of Unthinkable, Paula Kyle
Honestly Adoption; Answers to 101 Questions About Adoption and Foster Care, Mike and Kristin Berry
A Child Called “It” One Child’s Courage to Survive, Dave Pelzer
Ready Or Not; 30 Day Discovery For Familyis Growing Through Foster Care and Adoption, Pam Parish
The Lost Boy, Dave Pelzer
Pieces of Me Who Do I Want to Be: Voices of Adopted Teens, Robert L. Ballard
Adopting The Older Child, Claudia L. Jewett
Adoption and The Sexually Abused Child, Joan McNamara and Bernard H. McNamara
Telling the Truth To Your Adopted of Foster Child; Making Sense of the Past, Betsy Keefer and Jayne E. Schooler
The Adoptive Parent Toolbox; Insights and Stories For the Journey, Mike and Kristin Berry
Confessions of an Adoptive Parent; Hope and Help from the Trenches of Foster Care and Adoption, Mike Berry
Raising Adopted Children; A Manual for Adoptive Parents, Lois Ruskai Melina
Families Change; A Book for Children Experiencing Termination of Parental Rights,Julie Nelson
H.O.P.E is Everything; Inspirational Stories, Tips and Interviews to Empower Self and Others to Achieve Greatness, Mark Anthony Garrett
Understanding and Meeting the Nine Most Important Emotional Needs of Foster and Adopted Children, Dr. B. Bryan Post, Ph.D, LCSW and Juli Alvarado, LPC
How To End Lying, Stealing and Defiance in Children, Dr. B. Bryan Post, Ph.D, LCSW and Gizane Indart, LPC
In The Beginning: The Story of Creation, Rachel Elliot
When We Walked on the Moon, David Long and Sam Kalda
It Will be Okay: Trusting GOD through fear and change, Lysa TerKeurst