The New Kids, Brooke Hauser
The New Kids, Brooke Hauser
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The New Kids
Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens

Author: Brooke Hauser

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 11 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2011

Synopsis

Inspired by the author's widely acclaimed New York Times article, The New Kids is immersion reporting at its most compelling. Brooke Hauser takes us deep inside a unique New York City high school over the course of a year as she follows diverse newcomers whose lives are at once ordinary and extraordinary, international headlines brought to life. No native English-speaking students attend the International High School, and more than twenty-eight languages fill the halls. The students in this modern-day Babel apply to college, fall in love, and rebel against their families like normal teenagers, but many deal with enormous obstacles - traumas and wars in their countries of origin that haunt them and pressures from their cultures to marry or drop out and go to work.

About Brooke Hauser

Brooke Hauser has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Allure, and Parade, among other publications. She is the author of The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens, a winner of the American Library Association’s Alex Award. She lives in western Massachusetts with her family and has taught nonfiction writing at Smith College.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alicia

Just a few pages into this book, I was completely hooked. The stories are fascinating and prove once again, à la Anne Fadiman or Tracy Kidder, that nonfiction can be just as riveting as fiction. The reader is constantly going back and forth between reliving moments of his/her own high school experie......more

Goodreads review by Danielle

The author of this book followed a number of students and teachers through a year at International High School in Brooklyn. International is a unique school in that all the students enrolled there are recent emigrants with limited to no English language skills. I went into it expecting to read somet......more

Goodreads review by Shaeley

Wow! This book is my job on steroids. I work with ELLs, but not at a school full of them like the International High School at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY. The writer follows several teens at the school and tells us their stories, going back to their home countries and telling about their journeys t......more

Goodreads review by Terry

Absolutely a fantastic non-fiction book. I rarely read non-fiction but Brooke Hauser writes a non-fiction book that brought tears to my eyes and pride for a profession that is so often belittled and certainly one that is underpaid. The teachers in this book are caring people who do everything in their p......more

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