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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: newcomers
    sub title: finding refuge, friendship, and hope in an American classroom
  name:
    name part: Thorpe, Helen
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 396 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 them through the enormous challenges of gaining basic English skills, adapting to life in the developed world and coping with the usual pangs of adolescence. Together their class represents a microcosm of the global refugee crisis, and highlights the moral issues of immigration, inclusion and America's role on the global stage.
  table of contents: The newcomers and those who welcomed them -- Part I: Fall. Nice to meet you ; The chair is short ; Smile ; Do you want a pencil? ; Have you seen war? ; Bonita ; Does she know Jesus? -- Part II: Winter. Delicious stick of butter ; The realist ; What five times (or, "I work my ass off") ; Our souls at night -- Part III: Spring. Well-taped boxes ; We hate sheep ; Wir schaffen das ; Silly one ; Qalb ; Busy, busy, busy ; Miss, I have nerves -- Part IV: Summer. Heal Africa -- Part V: Fall. Careless driving ; What is resolution?
  note: Helen Thorpe.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-co
  subject:
    topic: Teenage immigrants
    topic: Education (Secondary)
    geographic: Colorado
    geographic: Denver
  subject:
    topic: Teenage refugees
    topic: Education (Secondary)
    geographic: Colorado
    geographic: Denver
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Study and teaching
    topic: Foreign speakers
  subject:
    topic: Teenage immigrants
    geographic: Colorado
    geographic: Denver
  subject:
    topic: Teenage refugees
    geographic: Colorado
    geographic: Denver
  subject:
    topic: Americanization
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION / Multicultural Education
  subject:
    topic: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
  classification: 373.1826/9120978883
  identifier: 9781501159091
  identifier: 1501159097
  identifier: 9781501159114
  identifier: 2017036773
  record info:
    record content source: PNX
    record creation date: 171103
    record change date: 20191026063501.0
    record identifier: in00003904741