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Author Thorpe, Helen, 1963- author. Title The newcomers : finding refuge, friendship, and hope in an American classroom / Helen Thorpe. Publisher New York : Scribner, c2017. Copies
ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS Superior adult nonfiction 373.18 T398n AVAILABLE Edition First Scribner hardcover edition. Descript xv, 396 pages ; 24 cm Note Nonfiction. Summary 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. Subject Teenage immigrants -- Education (Secondary) -- Colorado -- Denver. Teenage refugees -- Education (Secondary) -- Colorado -- Denver. English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. Teenage immigrants -- Colorado -- Denver. Teenage refugees -- Colorado -- Denver. Americanization. ISBN/ISSN 1501159097 9781501159091
