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Book

The newcomers : finding refuge, friendship, and hope in an American classroom

Call Number

  • 373.1826 T519 (CEN, WSQ)

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Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Scribner, 2017.

Physical Description

xv, 396 pages ; 24 cm

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.

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