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Adopted Like Me: My Book of Adopted Heroes Hardcover – September 26, 2013

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Hi - I'm Max, and I'm adopted.

You may not know this but many famous and inspirational people were adopted too. Adopted Like Me introduces you to great musicians like Bo Diddley, politicians like Nelson Mandela, and stars like Marilyn Monroe. Meet these along with inventors, athletes, and a princess skilled in judo and fencing - all of them adopted like me. Read about these adoptees and you'll see that you can grow up to be just about anything you want to be!

Fully illustrated in color, this book is for children aged 8+ who have been adopted, their parents, teachers and siblings.

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8 - 18 years
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48 pages
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English
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7.68 x 0.39 x 10.08 inches
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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September 26, 2013
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9781849059350
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A wonderfully creative, informative, and ultimately empowering book for adopted children and their families. Aristotle, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs -- I'm honored to be included in such a varied and illustrious collection of adoptees! Author: Sarah Saffian, author of Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found

Adopted Like Me is a great book that expands what "adopted" means to include relative/kinship care and guardianships as well as traditional adoption. It will be a great starting point for discussing adoption in families and will help children and youth to understand that no matter how they joined their families, they are loved and cherished. Ann Angel has both deepened our understanding of adoption and shown what a diverse mix of people have shaped our world. This is not only a family lesson -- it is also a great history lesson of the good that happens when people are loved. Author: Colleen Ellingson, CEO, Coalition for Children, Youth & Families, USA

Adopted Like Me is brilliant! It taps into the ideas and imagination of all children to boost self-esteem and show that if you want to, you can be anything you want to be. I thoroughly recommend this book -- it's an excellent way to start conversations about adoption and will inspire and excite adopted children of all ages. Author: Maryam Lane, Adoptive Parent

In this book Max introduces himself as being adopted and explains what this means to him. He then shares details of 19 famous people who were adopted... There is a page telling each person's story, together with a full-page illustration... This book is informative and can be used as an aid to discussing people who have been adopted and became successful. Author: Juno Magazine, Summer 2014

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This fully illustrated picture book introduces famous and inspirational adoptees from Nelson Mandela to Marilyn Monroe - all of them Adopted Like Me!

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1849059357
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jessica Kingsley Publishers; 1st edition (September 26, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 48 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781849059350
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849059350
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 18 years
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.68 x 0.39 x 10.08 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,599,003 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #19 in Teen & Young Adult Nonfiction on Adoption
- #2,267 in Adoption (Books)
- #2,591 in Teen & Young Adult Biographies

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Ann Angel loves the world of young adults and writes both fiction and nonfiction for this group. She served as contributing editor and one of the writers for THINGS I'LL NEVER SAY: STORIES ABOUT OUR SECRET SELVES but is perhaps best knows as the author of the 2011 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award winner JANIS JOPLIN RISE UP SINGINGS, one of her many biographies. Her most recent biography, for younger audiences, is ADOPTED LIKE ME, MY BOOK OF ADOPTED HEROES. Previously, she served as contributing editor for the anthology SUCH A PRETTY FACE: SHORT STORIES ABOUT BEAUTY. A graduate of Vermont College’s MFA in writing for children and young adults, Ann directs the English Graduate Program and teaches writing at Mount Mary University in Milwaukee where she lives with her family. She was drawn to the idea of THINGS I’LL NEVER SAY because she believes that the secret self is often the true self. You can contact Ann through her web site: www.annangelwriter.com.

Other biographies include ROBERT CORMIER: WRITER OF THE CHOCOLATE WAR (Enslow, 2007). A biography of AMY TAN, WEAVER OF ASIAN AMERICAN TALES (Enslow in 2009), and a student's guide to Sandra Cisneros in 2010. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies including, Flash Forward Youth: 65 Short-Short Stories (Persea Book, 2011).

Works in progress include young adult novels, a book on trafficking in the United States and more short stories.

Ann often speaks to middle graders and high schoolers as well as adults about writing about tough topics.

"When I'm not pushing a deadline, I'm teaching graduates students in writing at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin or working with some of the greatest local writers through SCBWI-Wisconsin. You can also find me hanging out with my husband Jeff and whichever of our four twenty-somethings happens to be wandering around the house. You can read more about my years as one of nine kids growing up in Wisconsin on my website."

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Website: www.annangelwriter.com

E-Mail: aangel@aol.com

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D.Lynd

A Must Have For Your Adopted Child's Library

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 24, 2014

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The minute I came across this book online I was in love with the concept. My husband and I work hard to celebrate adoption in our home and help our children embrace this beautiful part of their life story. We want our kids to know that, yes, they are a little different then the norm because they were adopted - but they are different in a truly spectacular way. This books helps us to accomplish that.

Please note that this is not a typical children's book. This 48 page hardback reads like your every day fact based biography (with a few one liners to spice things up). After a well written introduction, approximately one page (5-7 full paragraphs) is spent on each adopted individual, accompanied by a full page illustration. I personally believe that approaching each biography in this manner allowed the author to find the perfect balance between being long-winded and giving satisfying amounts of detailed information. I also appreciate the language level she used. She made each biography's concepts and accomplishments easy to understand without talking down to the reader. The mixture of classic and modern hero figures is nicely done as well.

Generally I believe this book is ideal for an older child, however, my 3 year old happily selects this as her nighttime read and loves falling asleep to the tales it holds. We get through about 4 biographies every time we read the book before we move onto the next book or fall asleep. The section on Steve Jobs is her absolute favorite at the moment. We've yet to read the book where he hasn't been one of the biographies we read.

All in all, although it's not your usual fantastical adoption story, it's a must have. Educational, motivational, and interesting. I'd love to see this as a staple in every adopted child's library.

List of "Adopted Heroes" discussed in this book:

- Moses
- John Lennon
- Marilyn Monroe
- Nelson Mandela
- Steven Jobs
- John James Audubon
- Aristotle
- George Washington Carver
- Fatima Whitbread
- Bo Diddley
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Tashunca-uitco (Crazy Horse)
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Princess Xianzi of the Qing Dynasty
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Dave Thomas
- Sarah Saffian
- Arn Chorn-Pond
- Langston Hughes

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Cynthia Miller

Great asset for Adoptive Families

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 1, 2014

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Who knew? The list of people who came to their families through adoption is "super cool" and full of surprises! The actual text is written for older children, but my 5 and 7 year olds love this book even though the copy was a little advanced for them -- they absolutely "got" the overall concept. No question this book will help impart to adoptive children that they are "special" and "awesome" (John Lennon?! Wow!). And As an adoptive parent, it's a reassuring text too -- how great to find out that (for example) Nelson Mandela was adopted. This will be a great resource when my children are older and run into the inevitable questions that aren't so polite. "All it means is that I'm special like [insert lots of great options] here. His / her parents worked really hard to bring her / him home too." The illustrations are fine. They are aimed at an older audience; they won't capture the imaginations of little children, but that's not the target audience -- and for my kids it didn't matter. They were captivated to learn about all these fascinating people. Reading this book would be a terrific mind-opening exercise for every single person who could read it, whether they are adopted or not -- because it's full of surprises for all of us; I would love to know that it was read in schools. Frankly it's a great collection of life summaries about all sorts of amazing people, regardless of adoption.

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T.J.

A book about Famous people who are adopted.Great book for adoptees and their families!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2016

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Although adoption is becoming more and more common in our society. Sometimes, there is still a stigma felt by those who are adopted. This book has many different stories and each story is about a famous and successful person who was adopted. This is a great addition to the library of any family, but particularly for those who have chosen adoption. It's great to see how many people who were adopted have accomplished great things, and it dispels any idea that adopted children are somehow limited or in any way inferior. Adopted children can be and do anything they put their minds to. They can and already are doing amazing things!

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C. Albert

Too American

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 21, 2014

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Not the best of books, I was hoping to chat about people we'd heard of who are adopted but there weren't many people my son could relate to.

A D CHITTY

adopted like me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 1, 2014

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Well written for children junior school age children. Disappointed so few living people included. Had hopped our children could look at current celebrities andthink they are adopted and they are okay. Also several of those included weren't really adopted in the true senseof the word.

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