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We’re Adopted, So What? Teens Tell It Like It Is

  • Gayle H Swift
  • Casey A Swift
  • Wesley J Blauvelt (Illustrator)

Being a teenager is tough. When you factor in the complexities and challenges of being adopted, it is exponentially harder. The graphic-style book, We’re Adopted. So What? features five teen girls who share a huge thing in common: each of them was adopted. This shared experience draws them together yet the distinctions between their experiences are as unique as their personalities. Feisty, fun and outspoken, the girls tackle some tough topics.

They share their thoughts and feelings being adopted, how adoption shapes their world and relationships, creates challenges, burdens them with curiosity, frustration, anger, and grief, and shows how they strive to blend together their biological and their adoptive worlds.

Open adoption has become the norm for most contemporary domestic adoptions, yet questions and complications remain for adoptees and their families:

  • How can all these people cooperate to create healthy, supportive relationships that best support adoptees? 
  • How does a young adoptee balance their dual loyalties, connections, and heritages?
  • How do they weave the spectrum of their feelings, challenges, and experiences into a cohesive identity?

Status: 1 in stock

Number of Pages: 60

Published: 2019

Publisher: IngramSpark Publishing

Format: Softcover

ISBN: 978-1733659710

DC#: TF-Sw&Sw

Category: Books

1 in stock

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