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Title: The New Kids
Subtitle: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens
Author: Brooke Hauser
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-04-11
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences
Publisher's Summary:
Inspired by the author's widely acclaimed New York Times article, New American High is immersion reporting at its most compelling. Brooke Hauser takes us deep inside a unique New York City high school over the course of a year as she follows diverse newcomers whose lives are at once ordinary and extraordinary, international headlines brought to life.
No native English-speaking students attend the International High School, and more than twenty-eight languages fill the halls. The students in this modern-day Babel apply to college, fall in love, and rebel against their families like normal teenagers, but many deal with enormous obstacles - traumas and wars in their countries of origin that haunt them and pressures from their cultures to marry or drop out and go to work.
Critic Reviews:
"...both fascinating and emotionally touching..." (
Publishers Weekly)
"Hauser provides a clear view into the mindset of immigrant teenagers...she succeeds in telling a story about people rather than a school. Highly recommended." (
Library Journal)
"This wonderful book connects us to the complexity, intensity and liveliness of refugee and immigrant teenagers. Hauser is masterful at storytelling. New American High 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)
