The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journey- 1439163308, paperback, Brooke Hauser

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Book Title
The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for
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9781439163306
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Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
1439163308
ISBN-13
9781439163306
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111006527

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
New Kids : Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens
Publication Year
2012
Subject
Secondary, Children's Studies, Emigration & Immigration, General, Sociology / Urban
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Education
Author
Brooke Hauser
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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22
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The
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"This wonderful book connects us to the complexity, intensity and liveliness of refugee and immigrant teenagers. Hauser is masterful at storytelling. The New Kids is a must read for anyone interested in teaching, teens, or our new America. It does what the best writing does: it increases our moral imaginations." -- Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, "Brooke Hauser's The New Kids is beautifully written and deeply moving account of young people trying to find their place in the new America." -- Warren St. John, author of Outcasts United and Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, "The trust between Brooke Hauser and her teenage subjects infuses her prose. This unique bond embodies the kind of special connection that I, as a documentary filmmaker, continuously strive for. With grace, compassion, and humor, she captures the complexity and intricacies of the young immigrant experience in the U.S. and teaches us something new about the changing face of our country through the unflinching eyes of its next generation." -- Ross Kauffman, director of the Academy Award-winning documentary, "Born Into Brothels", "Heartbreaking, hopeful, and utterly enthralling. The New Kids is the spellbinding account of what happens when students like Ngawang, who began his journey to America zipped inside a suitcase, meet the kind of teachers willing to confront bootleggers who use kids as slave labor. For real-life drama and a glimpse of America at its best, The New Kids is unbeatable." -- Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and The Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, "The U.S. Census tells us that the most diverse generation in history is growing up today in America. The New Kids takes us into the hallways, drama clubs, science labs, and prom nights of this profound demographic shift. Here we find endearing and impossibly brave teenagers, trying to disengage their thoughts from the slaughter, hunger, and persecution they escaped in order to focus on civics class, hip-hop slang, tight jeans, SAT tests, and how to become 'real Americans.' Brooke Hauser is a compassionate and spell-binding storyteller; she has won the trust of these young people; and we older Americans should feel profoundly optimistic and grateful that such talented youth have chosen our country." -- Melissa Fay Greene, author of There Is No Me Without You, "Enlightening, highly readable. Hauser paints a portrait of the ambitious, energetic school by following a cross section of students over the course of a year. Hauser clearly cares about the students whose lives she entered for a year, as does the reader, who rejoices for those who get word of scholarships in the spring and regrets the outcomes of undocumented students who are "wait-listed for life." -- Booklist, "Brooke Hauser, who spent a year following members of the senior class, delivers a rich, extraordinarily moving account of the challenges they met--and the many ways in which kids are the same the world over." -- Parade Magazine, "A refreshing reminder of the hurdles newcomers to this country still face and how many defy the odds to overcome them." -- The New York Times, "Hauser's writing resonates with the message she forwards, which is epitomized by International and its cohorts: "Keep hope breathing." Hauser provides a clear view into the mindset of immigrant teenagers. In doing so, she succeeds in telling a story about people rather than a school. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal
Dewey Decimal
373.18
Synopsis
"A refreshing reminder of the hurdles newcomers to this country still face and how many defy the odds to overcome them," writes The New York Times , this inspiring work of narrative journalism recounts a year in the life at the International High School at Prospect Heights. 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., "A refreshing reminder of the hurdles newcomers to this country still face and how many defy the odds to overcome them," writes The New York Times , this inspiring work of narrative journalism recounts a year in the life at the International High School at Prospect Heights. 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., "A refreshing reminder of the hurdles newcomers to this country still face and how many defy the odds to overcome them," writes The New York Times, this inspiring work of narrative journalism recounts a year in the life at the International High School at Prospect Heights.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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