The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens
Autor Brooke Hauseren Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2012
Some walked across deserts and mountains to get here. One arrived after escaping in a suitcase. And others won t say how they got here.
These are the new kids: new to America and all the routines and rituals of an American high school, from lonely first days to prom. They attend Brooklyn s International High School at Prospect Heights, where all the students are recent immigrants learning English. Together, they come from more than forty-five countries and speak more than twenty-eight languages.
An inspiring work of narrative journalism, "The New Kids "chronicles a year in the lives of teenage newcomers who are at once ordinary and extraordinary in their paths to the American Dream. Hauser s unforgettable portraits include Jessica, kicked out of her father s home just days after arriving from China; Ngawang, who spent twenty-four hours folded up in a suitcase to escape Tibet; Mohamed, a diamond miner s son from Sierra Leone whose past is shrouded in mystery; and Chit Su, a Burmese refugee who is the only person to speak her language in the entire school.
The students deal with enormous obstacles: traumas and wars in their native countries that haunt them, and pressures from their cultures to marry or to drop out and go to work. They aren t just jostling for their places in the high school pecking order they are carving out new lives for themselves in America."
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ISBN-13: 9781439163306
ISBN-10: 1439163308
Pagini: 308
Dimensiuni: 137 x 213 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Free Press
ISBN-10: 1439163308
Pagini: 308
Dimensiuni: 137 x 213 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Free Press