The Newcomers - Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom

Traces the lives of twenty-two immigrant teens throughout the course of a year at Denver's South High School who attended a specially created English Language Acquisition class and who were helped to adapt through strategic introductions to American culture.

About the author

Helen Thorpe was born in London to Irish parents and grew up in New Jersey. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, The New Yorker, Slate, and Harper’s Bazaar. Her radio stories have aired on This American Life and Sound Print. She is the author of Just Like Us, Soldier Girls, and The Newcomers and lives in Denver.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Thorpe, Thorpe Helen
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2017
• EAN: 9781501159091
• ISBN: 978-1-5011-5909-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 231 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 581 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; USA, Ethnic Studies, Biography: general, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, 20th Century, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Migration, immigration & emigration, Secondary Schools, United States of America, USA, Educational strategies & policy, Migration, immigration and emigration, Language teaching and learning, ELT: learning material & coursework, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity, LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language