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

Thorpe, Helen, 1965- Book - 2017 373.182 Th 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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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.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2017.
Year Published: 2017
Description: xv, 396 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781501159091
1501159097

SUBJECTS
Teenage immigrants -- Education (Secondary) -- Denver.
Teenage refugees -- Education (Secondary) -- Denver.
English language -- Foreign speakers.
Teenage immigrants -- Denver.
Teenage refugees -- Denver.
Americanization.