Helen Thorpe
Author
Language
English
Description
In Finding Motherland, acclaimed nonfiction author Helen Thorpe shares seven essays she has written on the related themes of family, food, and migration. She takes us to the dairy farm in Ireland where her mother grew up, and depicts how Ireland is modernizing with surprising consequences. She describes her family's decision to immigrate to the United States and how, that reshaped her Irish-born parents. She shows us how the experience of becoming...
2) Just Like Us
Author
Language
English
Description
Just Like Us is the story of four high school students whose parents entered this country illegally from Mexico. All four of the girls have grown up in the United States, all four want to live the American dream, only two have documents. As the girls attempt to make it into college, they discover that only the legal pair see a clear path forward. A coming-of-age story about girlhood,friendship, as well as the resilience required to transcend poverty,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of three women over twelve years on their paths to the military, overseas to combat, and back home. These women, who are quite different in every way, become friends, and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated. We see their families, their lovers, their spouses, their children. We see them work extremely hard, deal with the attentions of men on base and in war zones, and struggle to stay connected...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Just Like Us tells the story of four high school students whose parents entered this country illegally from Mexico. All four of the girls have grown up in the United States, and all four want to live the American dream, but only two have documents. As the girls attempt to make it into college, they discover that only the legal pair see a clear path forward. A coming-of-age story about girlhood and friendship, as well as the resilience required to...
Author
Language
English
Description
Offering a nuanced and transformative take on immigration, multiculturalism, and America's role on the global stage, The Newcomers follows and reflects on the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers throughout the course of their 2015-2016 school year at Denver's South High School. Unfamiliar with American culture or the English language, the students range from the age of fourteen to nineteen and come from nations struggling with drought, famine,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 397 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 396 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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...