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Title details for The New Kids by Brooke Hauser - Available

The New Kids

Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for

by Brooke Hauser
Tavia Gilbert
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Inspired by the author's widely acclaimed New York Times article, The New Kids 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.

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  • Release date

    September 20, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666598452
      • File size: 325342 KB
      • Duration: 11:17:47

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 1140
    • Text Difficulty: 8-9

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 16, 2011
      For a single school year (2008â2009), freelance writer Hauser tracked the staff and students at the International High School at Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, N.Y., whose particular mission is to serve "recent immigrants and new English-language learners." Hauser observes the counselors advising, the instructors teaching, and the students learning in and out of school, providing their personal histories as well as their day-to-day experiences. Among the students followed most closely at this public school are Jessica from China (made homeless "before the end of her first week in America by her stepmother"); Yasmeen from Yemen (who drops out and into an arranged marriage); and Mohamed from Sierra Leone (who "in so many ways has become a real American boy," but "still lives in fear of being deported"). Among the staff, Hauser focuses on English teacher Ann, art teacher Cindy, and the coordinator of special programs, Dariana. The school is an exciting, innovative place, and the students have stories both fascinating and emotionally touching. Nevertheless, Hauser's book becomes tedious with quotidian detail. The school, its staff, and its students, however, are well worth getting acquainted withâif the conversational clutter created by Hauser's desire for authenticity does not wear out the reader's patience.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:1140
  • Text Difficulty:8-9

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