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The newcomers : finding refuge, friendship, and hope in an American classroom
Preferred Shelf Number:
373.1826 THO
First Title value, for Searching:
The newcomers : finding refuge, friendship, and hope in an American classroom
First Author value, for Searching:
Thorpe, Helen, 1965- author.
ISBN:
9781501159091
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Description:
xv, 396 pages ; 24 cm
Abstract:
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.