Helen Thorpe
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the experiences of three women soldiers deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq to reveal how their military service has affected their friendship, personal lives and families, detailing the realities of their work on bases and in war zones and how their choices and losses shaped their perspectives.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 396 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers from nations devastated by drought or famine or war, over the course of their first school year in America. The talented and endlessly resourceful Denver South High School teacher Mr. Eddie Williams welcomes these students, who speak fourteen different languages but no English and are completely unfamiliar with American culture, to his specially created English Language Acquisition class. He guides...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Just Like Us" offers a powerful account of four young Mexican women coming of age in Denver--two of whom have legal documentation, two of whom who don't--and the challenges they face as they attempt to pursue the American dream.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
12 audio discs (approximately 910 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Powerful and moving, this account of teenaged refugees adapting to life in America offers a nuanced take on immigration, multiculturalism, and America's role globally.
