The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens by Hauser, Brooke. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781439163283.

";A refreshing reminder of the hurdles newcomers to this country still face and how many defy the odds to overcome them,"; writes The New York Times, this inspiring work of narrative journalism recounts a year in the life at the International High School at Prospect Heights, where students come from more than forty-five countries and speak more than twenty-eight languages.Some walked across deserts and mountains to get here. Others flew in on planes. One arrived after escaping in a suitcase. And some won’t say how they got here. These are ";the new kids:"; new to America. They attend the International High School, which is like most high schools in some ways, but all of the students are recent immigrants learning English. Among the students featured in the book, chosen as one of People magazine’s ";Great Reads";: Ngawang, who spent twenty-four hours folded up in a small suitcase to escape from Tibet; Mohamed, a di