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Cadbury, Deborah Davies, Nicola Fishman, Elly Mufleh, Luma Napolitano, Jo Thorpe, Helen Vu, DonVu, Don
Summary: Award-winning principal and literacy advocate Don Vu examines six conditions of a school’s culture of literacy (Commitment, Collection, Clock, Conversation, Connection, and Celebration), showing how to create an environment where all students—especially immigrant and refugee children—can thrive. Vu’s work is a testament to the transformative power of reading—a key to opening the door for all to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 302.2244 VUMufleh, Luma
Summary: "It was a wrong turn that changed everything. When Luma Mufleh--a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan--stumbled upon a pick-up game of soccer in Clarkston, Georgia, something compelled her to join. The players, 11- and 12-year-olds from Liberia, Afghanistan, and Sudan, soon welcomed her as coach of their ragtag but fiercely competitive group. Drawn into their lives,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUFLEH, LUMA MUFThorpe, Helen
Summary: Follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers from nations devastated by drought or famine or war, over the course of their first school year in America. The talented and endlessly resourceful Denver South High School teacher Mr. Eddie Williams welcomes these students, who speak fourteen different languages but no English and are completely unfamiliar with American culture, to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 373 THOFishman, Elly
Summary: "A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highest proportions of refugees of any school in the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.86 FISCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.86 FISDavies, Nicola
Summary: A powerful and necessary picture book - the journey of a child forced to become a refugee when war destroys everything she has ever known. Imagine if, on an ordinary day, war came. Imagine it turned your town to rubble. Imagine going on a long and difficult journey - all alone. Imagine finding no welcome at the end of it. Then imagine a child who gives you something small but very, very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAVCadbury, Deborah
Summary: In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England.But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CADCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CADNapolitano, Jo
Summary: "Uncovers the key civil rights battle that immigrant children fought alongside the ACLU to ensure equal access to education within a xenophobic nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021