Tools and Resources for Adoptive Families
and the Professionals Who Help Them
Pieces of Me: Who do I Want to Be
A book for adopted teens
Today’s teenager struggles with a variety of challenges, ranging from concerns over popularity, doing well in school, getting into college, driving, peer pressure, friends, religion, which is not to mention concerns and worries over drugs, alcohol, sex, pregnancy, and suicide. For the adopted teen, identity issues, fitting in with their adoptive families, birth families, personal histories, cultural differences, skin color differences, abusive pasts, and more manifest themselves in a variety of ways, often unpredictably or even disguised as something other than the underlying issue.
Given this complexity, it is hard to reach teenagers, let alone a teenager who is also adopted. This book hopes to offer voices and a place where adopted teens can feel free to be themselves, a place where they feel comfortable journeying through life as a teenager . . . a teenager who also happens to be adopted.
Submission process complete.
Selections have been made for inclusion in the book. Bert, our editor, has waded through the hundreds of submissions and has organized and selected the ones he feels best speak to the teens of today. Below is a list of those who will be represented in the book. A detailed email will follow with the specific submission selected (if more than one was sent), a request for any additional information we might need from you, and the compensation for your particular piece. Thanks for your patience during this process, we are truly excited for this book!
See a sample of what's inside the book...click here
Congratulations to the contributors who made it!
Drum roll please.......
Benjamin Anders
Jennifer Arndt-Johns
Sarah Ballard
Chloe Berger
Sheila Black
Josie Brett
Kelly Jackson Brownlee
Cindy J. Champnella
Jaclyn Champnella
Hannah Chadwick-Dias
Katya Chancellor
Shefalie Chandra
Selena Chester
Angel Coldiron
Grace Cook
Jenna Cook
Xiu Xiu Cooney
Marisa Cox
Marni Denenberg
Lisa Dickson
Patricia Dischler
Lisa Diskson
Jessica Emmett
Aaron & Hannah Glotzer
Kahleah Guibault
Beth Hall
Georgina Hall
James Hall-Gallagher
Sofia Arroyo Hall-Gallagher
Mary Hart
Chris Ann Heaphy/Abbott
Rachel Daylight Heinrich
Janet Henegan
Maisie Howard
Hanna Sofia Jung Johansson
Angie Johnston
Kaitlyn Kraybill-Voth
Alysia Larson
Jena Leddon
Ned Levy
Amy Martin
Juli Martin
Kathleen Mason
Sheena McFarland
Judy M Miller
Allie Moreno
Paula OLoughlin
Dominique Parker
Stacy Pearson
Hong Pham
Jasmine Pyne
Jared Rehberg
T. Reid
Jonathan Riley
Lydia Roberts
Sadan Rollings
Melinda Rosenthal
Virginia Satir
Amy Shore
Amy Silverbrandt
LewEllen Singley
Margot Starbuck
Elena Sutton
Gerard Wozek
Kim Eun Mi Young
If your name is not here, know that we would have loved to have included more articles, poems, artwork, etc but we do have a page limit we are working on. The choice was difficult but we tried to cover a number of different thoughts, ideas and experiences with the selected submissions.
Questions? or is an email not working? Send questions to info@emkpress.com.
About the editor:
Bert Ballard (Ph.D.) is a Vietnamese adoptee evacuated from Vietnam in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War. His passion is the adoptee voice. He has helped co-found two adoptee organizations and has served on a variety of boards for adoption. He is a sought-after speaker for both adoptive parents and adoptees having given hundreds of presentations across the nation. He is also widely published on adoption, in magazines, popular books, and academic journals. He is very excited to be working on a book for adopted teens as he believes there is a void of support and resources for this very important and valuable group of people.
He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario in the Department of Drama & Speech Communication where he teaches courses on interpersonal communication, communication ethics, and organizational communication. He researches international and transracial adoptee and adoptive family identity, communication ethics, and race. He is married with two daughters and is awaiting a referral for his adoptive son from Vietnam.
Questions? Click here to email Bert
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Your connection with
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also, let us know which tagline you like best and why. Thanks for voting!
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And the winner chose....
RED!
Congrats to
Angel Caldiron
for her multiple title submissions. Her title "Pieces of Me" won her a nifty red i-Pod nano.
